2023年7月7日 星期五

Chinese researcher at AIST arrested - Suspicion of information leak to Chinese company

Recently NHK News on-line reported the following:

産総研の中国籍研究員を逮捕 中国企業に情報漏えいの疑い

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茨城県つくば市にある「産業技術総合研究所」の中国籍の研究員が、フッ素化合物に関する技術情報を中国の企業に漏えいしたとして、不正競争防止法違反の疑いで警視庁に逮捕されました。

逮捕されたのは、国立研究開発法人「産業技術総合研究所」の上級主任研究員で、中国籍の権恒道(59)容疑者です。

警視庁によりますと、平成30年、自身が研究に参加しているフッ素化合物に関する技術情報を、中国の企業にメールで送って漏えいしたとして、不正競争防止法違反の疑いが持たれています。

漏えいされた情報は、変圧器などに使われる絶縁性の高いガスを、フッ素化合物の合成技術を使って生成する先端技術で、温暖化防止にも有効な技術だったということです。

捜査関係者によりますと、権容疑者は平成14年から「産業技術総合研究所」に勤務する一方、軍事部門とつながりが深いとされる中国の大学でも教授を兼任していた疑いがあるということで、警視庁が詳しいいきさつを調べています。

先端技術の流出をめぐっては、流出した技術が軍事転用されれば、安全保障上の脅威になるとして「経済安全保障」の観点から警察当局などが警戒を強化しています。

Translation

A Chinese researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba of Ibaraki Prefecture was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law in leaking technical information on fluorine compounds to a Chinese company.

The person arrested Quán héngdào 権恒道 (59) was a senior chief researcher of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a national research and development agency.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, in 2018, he was suspected of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by sending an e-mail to a Chinese company and leaking technical information on fluorine compounds that he was participating in research.

The leaked information was the highly insulating gas used in transformers, etc., it was an advanced technology that used fluorine compound synthesis technology and effective in preventing global warming.

According to investigative sources, Quan had been working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology since 2002, and was being suspected of concurrently serving as a professor at a university in China which was said to have close ties to the military sector. The Metropolitan Police Department was investigating the details.

Regarding the outflow of advanced technology, if the leaked technology was diverted to military use, it would be a security threat, and the police authorities and others were strengthening their vigilance from the perspective of "economic security."

So, a Chinese who was working for a Japanese research institute is suspected of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by leaking technical information to a company in China. I think some Chinese in the mainland may view this act as patriotism.

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