3rd Chinese Scientist Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trade Secrets From Drug Maker GlaxoSmithKline

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A third former scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets to benefit pharmaceutical company Renopharma, which was backed by Chinese regime funding, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Jan. 3.

Lucy Xi, 44, formerly a resident of Malvern, Pennsylvania, is the fourth person to plead guilty in the scheme that also involves former GSK scientists Yu Xue and Tao Li, Yuโ€™s sister Tian Xue, and Yan Mei, to whom Xi was married.

According to the DOJ, Xi and her co-defendants created Renopharma in Nanjing, China, to research and develop anti-cancer drugs. Meanwhile, the three were also employed at British drug manufacturer GSKโ€™s facility in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, where they developed biopharmaceutical products.

Prosecutors said they used their positions at the company to steal trade secrets from their employer to benefit Renopharma, which received financial support and subsidies from the Chinese regime.

These products typically cost in excess of $1 billion to research and develop, U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in announcing Xiโ€™s guilty plea.

The DOJ stated that Xi sent her husband a GSK document in 2015 containing confidential and trade secret data and information, including a summary of the companyโ€™s research into monoclonal antibodiesโ€”laboratory-made proteins that imitate the immune systemโ€™s ability to fight off infections, such as virusesโ€”at that time.

Xi allegedly wrote in the email: โ€œYou need to understand it very well. It will help you in your future business [RENOPHARMA].โ€

โ€œThis defendant illegally stole trade secrets to benefit her husbandโ€™s company, which was financed by the Chinese government,โ€ Williams said. โ€œThe lifeblood of companies like GSK is its intellectual property, and when that property is stolen and transferred to a foreign country, it threatens thousands of American jobs and jeopardizes the strategic benefits brought about through research and development. Such criminal behavior must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.โ€

By Katabella Roberts

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