Bribery and treason: Ex-HTC-guide accused - WinFuture

Thomas Chien, former head of design at the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has been provided with five other former employees to court: you will bribery and betrayal of trade secrets accused

Influential. HTC employees should have taken advantage of their positions at the shops in the smartphone sector. Taiwanese authorities identified under the provisions of the so-called Trade Secrets Act, of the theft, which governs unauthorized reproduction or disclosure of trade secrets. The provisions of the Trade Secrets Acts are still fairly new, the investigation at HTC is among one of the first major cases published only this year provisions.

The Indictment should be doing on HTC Internal as well as on a small group of persons with the suppliers of HTC relate.

Thomas Chien then assigned a former vice president of design leaked a very special role. He is said to have submitted false billings and is therefore under the suspicion of enrichment. In addition, he is said to have taken trade secrets, to use them for building their own startups. According to the indictment, it is about the design for a yet unpublished adaptation of the operating system interface Sense, which are used by HTC.

The evidence must be overwhelming, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and the Taipei Times. Some of the defendants were found large sums of cash, which should come from the collection of bribes. Said to have been found alone in Chien in autumn during the investigation converted approximately 250,000 Euro cash. These were found in the defendant’s plans for establishing your own smartphone provider.

It is said that the court would impose penalties of up to ten years imprisonment for individual defendants. To this end, there was talk of high fines. The amount of damage was estimated at the equivalent of 1.2 million euros.