Japan arrests researchers from national institutes with Japanese and Chinese nationality... "Technology leaked to Chinese companies"

A Chinese researcher working at a national research institute in Japan was arrested on charges of leaking research content to a Chinese company.

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According to the Yomiuri Shimbun on the 15th local time, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a Chinese national chief researcher affiliated with Japan's national research institute, the "National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology," on charges of sending research content on fluorine-based compounds conducted since 2018 to a Chinese company.

The leaked information is known to be advanced technology related to the synthesis of fluorine-based compounds.

The researcher had been working at the institute since 2002 and concurrently held a faculty position at Beijing University of Technology for a period.

Meanwhile, the Public Security Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the relationship between the researcher and the company that received the information, as well as the circumstances of the leak.

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