Yang Sui, Stealing GE’s Trade Secrets, New York 2018

Yang Sui, a 43-year-old man from Niskayuna, New York, has been sentenced to 1 year of probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for stealing trade secrets from General Electric Company.

The announcement was made by Elizabeth C. Coombe, Attorney for the United States Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

As part of his earlier guilty plea, Sui admitted to stealing multiple electronic files containing General Electric Company’s trade secrets surrounding the research, development, design, and manufacture of its silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).

MOSFETs are small electronic semiconductors/switches that regulate the flow of electricity through devices; they are used in a variety of products.

Sui further admitted that in about 2017, he was developing a business plan to start his own company whose purpose was to manufacture and sell MOSFETs.

This case was investigated by the FBI, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Belliss and Trial Attorney Matthew Chang of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

Yang Sui, 43, of Niskayuna, New York, was sentenced on an unknown date for stealing trade secrets. The exact date of the sentencing is not specified in the release.

The defendant was sentenced to 1 year of probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

The trade secrets stolen by Yang Sui belonged to General Electric Company and pertained to the research, development, design, and manufacture of its silicon carbide metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).

MOSFETs are used in a variety of products, including devices that regulate the flow of electricity.

Yang Sui was developing a business plan to start his own company to manufacture and sell MOSFETs in about 2017.

This case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Belliss and Trial Attorney Matthew Chang of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.

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