WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A 45-year-old Westborough man accused of illegally sending trade secrets to China may be granted bail.
Prosecutors said Monday in federal court in Worcester that Kexue Huang (coo-SHOO' WHUNG) passed on insecticide information valued at more than $100 million to Hunan Normal University while he worked for Dow Chemical in Indiana from January 2003 to February 2008.
Huang faces a dozen counts of economic espionage to benefit a foreign government. His lawyer, James Duggan, said in court the allegations stem from an article Huang published in a Chinese academic journal.
Huang, who now works at a Marlborough biofuels company, was arrested Tuesday.
Duggan said his client is a responsible, well-educated person whose family would be willing to give up their passports and use their home equity for his bail.
Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe.
