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Ex-DuPont chemist sentenced in theft

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Federal prosecutors say a former DuPont chemist has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from the company.

Forty-four-year-old Hong Meng was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded in June.

Authorities said Meng, whose work involved research on organic light emitting diodes, accepted a position at Peking University in China in 2009 without DuPont's knowledge. He then transferred information about DuPont's work with OLED displays to his Peking e-mail account and his personal computer.

Authorities say Meng also lied to investigators about sending DuPont chemical samples, some considered trade secret compounds, to a colleague at Northwestern University with instructions to forward them to China.

Source: Businessweek

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