Engineer indicted for trying to sell Ford's secrets in ChinaA former Ford Motor Co. engineer was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Thursday on federal charges of stealing company secrets and trying to sell them in China. Xiang Dong, who went by Mike Yu, was charged with theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer. Originally from Beijing, Yu was a product engineer for Ford Motor from 1997 to 2007, when he took a job with the American subsidiary of a Chinese company. The indictment charges that on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of his departure from Ford and before he told Ford of his new job, Yu copied some 4,000 Ford documents onto an external hard drive, including sensitive Ford design documents. He is also accused of taking Ford design documents to China in July 2005 in conjunction with his efforts to obtain employment with a Chinese automotive company. The two Chinese companies Chinese owned companies can be defined as enterprises within mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and the Republic of China (Taiwan):
Yu, 47, was arrested on October 14 at O'Hare International Airport O'Hare International Airport is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. It is the largest hub of United Airlines (whose headquarters is in downtown Chicago) and the second-largest hub of American Airlines (after in Chicago after re-entering the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. following a visit to China. He remains in custody ahead of a detention hearing set for Tuesday. 
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