A Canadian national was was sentenced Monday to 24 months in prison for conspiring to send to undercover law enforcement officers trade secrets that belonged to his previous employer, Tesla Motors Canada subsidiary Hibar Systems Ltd.
Klaus Pflugbeil, a Chinese resident and a Canadian and German national, and his co-defendant, Yilong Shao, who remains at large, are owners of a PRC-based business Hife Systems, that sold technology used to make batteries, allegedly used stolen confidential information – developed by Hibar – to establish their own Chinese-based competitor.
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