Scientist charged with economic espionage

“A scientific researcher from Westboro is one of a handful of people to be charged in federal court with foreign economic espionage after he allegedly stole information about an organic insecticide developed by Dow Chemical Co. and gave it to a university in China.

Kexue Huang, 45, was arrested July 13 on a federal indictment from the Southern District of Indiana accusing him of 12 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets to benefit a foreign government and instrumentality, and five counts of foreign or interstate transportation of stolen property.

According to FBI Special Agent Alexander H. Arnett Jr., who testified at Mr. Huang’s detention hearing yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester, Mr. Huang worked for Dow and allegedly took company information about an organic insecticide to a Chinese university. “

(Scientist charged with economic espionage)