A Chinese man will spend three years in prison for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto. Evidence against him included 1,000 lbs (454 kg) of GMO corn seeds he sent to Beijing to be counterfeited by scientists.
Mo Hailong, 47, was sentenced [Oct. 5] after pleading guilty to conspiring to steal trade secrets… the Des Moines Register reported.
“We need to send a message to China that this kind of criminal behavior is not tolerated in the United States,” Rose said.
Mo is not the first person to be accused of trade-secret theft related to genetically modified seeds. He was one of three Chinese men arrested in 2013 for providing illegally obtained seed samples to scientists in China who create their own knock-off versions… the Associated Press reported.
Even the FBI has expressed concern over the theft of genetically modified seed recipes.
In 2013, Mo was caught kneeling in a cornfield owned by DuPont Pioneer…
Mo was a legal resident living in Boca Raton, Florida at the time of his arrest…
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