Quebec’s hydro utility says it turned conscious in March 2022 of educational papers printed with out its data by a former worker on trial for allegedly spying for China.
Patrick Phan, a supervisor at Hydro-Québec, testified immediately {that a} colleague confirmed him one unauthorized publication and requested if the utility’s mental property committee had been made conscious.
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Yuesheng Wang was fired in 2022 from a analysis institute at Hydro-Québec that seemed into superior battery applied sciences and power storage methods.
Wang, 38, is the primary particular person to be charged with financial espionage below Canada’s Safety of Info Act.
He’s additionally charged with fraudulently utilizing a pc, breach of belief, committing preparatory acts on behalf of a overseas entity and informing that entity — the Folks’s Republic of China — of his intentions.
Phan informed the trial in Superior Courtroom that additional searches uncovered a number of different unauthorized publications with Wang’s title on them.
The witness famous that some publications listed solely Wang’s title, whereas others included his associations with Hydro-Québec and different researchers employed by the analysis facility.
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