Samsung employees jailed for OLED data transfer

Last year, two Samsung Display employees were arrested for spying for China. Now it has become known that

they were sentenced to two years in prison.

Employees accused of violating protection lawcommercial secrets of the enterprise. In addition, representatives of the company, who received data from them about OLED technology, were also punished: the directors were imprisoned for one year, while the accomplices were given two years probation. The company itself was fined.

Recall that convicted Samsung employeesDisplay bought a stake in a third-party company, giving it data on the technology developed by the South Korean giant. We are talking about a technology that describes the process of producing an adhesive optical material that is used to create screens. The investigation revealed that they were trying to merge the technology into China.