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[Alphabiz=(Chicago) Reporter Kim Jisun] A group of people who leaked the world's first core technology of "supercritical semiconductor cleaning equipment" developed by Semes, a key subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to China has been put on trial.
The Suwon District Prosecutors' Office's Defense Business and Industrial Technology Crime Criminal Division (Deputy Prosecutor Park Jin-sung) said on the 16th that it has indicted four people, including former researcher Semes and a technology leakage broker, and indicted one person without detention on charges of violating the Industrial Technology Protection Act and the Unfair Competition Prevention Act (such as leakage of trade secrets).
Founded in 1993 by Samsung Electronics, Semes is a key subsidiary that plays a major role in Samsung Electronics' semiconductor business. Manufacture equipment for semiconductor and display manufacturing. Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the Semes plant in person in June 2020, which marks the first anniversary of Japan's export regulations, to encourage executives and employees by checking measures to strengthen facility competitiveness.
A (47), who was arrested and indicted this time, is a former employee of Semes and founded a new company in 2019 after quitting Semes in 2016. In June 2021, he is suspected of handing over the core drawings of the ultra-critical semiconductor cleaning equipment acquired illegally through the SEMES partner, Mr. B, to Mr. C, a technology leakage broker.
It was investigated that A and others made a huge profit of KRW 119.3 billion by exporting 20 cleaning equipment from December 2019 to July 2022 due to such technology leakage.
Alphabiz Reporter Kim Jisun(stockmk2020@alphabiz.co.kr)
