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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Agricultural espionage


Mo Hailong, a Chinese executive accused of stealing high-tech corn seeds, owned two farms in the U.S., including one near Redfield, Iowa, according to U.S. authorities.The criminal trial of a Chinese executive accused of stealing high-tech U.S. corn seeds is turning into a battle over the federal government’s use of an anti-spying law to fight industrial espionage.U.S. prosecutors say Mo Hailong, an official with a Chinese agriculture company, participated in a multiyear scheme to pilfer seeds from test fields of U.S. agribusiness giants Monsanto Co. and DuPont Co.

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