GlaxoSmithKline trade secret theft case strikes down Swiss scientist, its 5th target, in conviction
A civil disquisition into a felonious ring that stole trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline for a Chinese biotech has claimed its fifth target. Gongda Xue, a Chinese citizen and former scientist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland, has been condemned on charges that he conspired to steal trade secrets from GSK to profit his own company. Xue’s conviction followed shamefaced pleas by four other people in the same case, including his family, Yu Xue, a former top druggist at GSK who has been linked as the ringleader of the scheme. “ While working for their separate realities, the defendant and his family betrayed their employers and participated nonpublic information for their own particular benefit,” theU.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement. The case focuses on a Chinese biotech Yu Xueco-founded, called Renopharma. Yu Xue, along with fellowex-GSK scientist Lucy Xi, stole GSK expl...