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   Ex-Apple Engineer Indicted in Crackdown on Flow of Restricted Tech to China,   
   Russia   
   By Sadie Gurman and Dylan Tokar, May 16, 2023, WSJ   
      
   Weibao Wang, 35 years old, a software engineer at Apple from 2016-2018, was   
   charged with six counts of theft or attempted theft of the company’s   
   “entire autonomy source code,” tracking systems, architecture designs and   
   descriptions of hardware    
   behind the technology, the Justice Dept said in an indictment.   
      
   About a year into his employment at Apple, Mr. Wang began working for a   
   U.S.-based subsidiary of a Chinese company that was also developing   
   autonomous-driving technology and began taking “large amounts” of   
   sensitive information related to Apple’s    
   project, the indictment says. Investigators who searched his Mountain View CA   
   home found Apple’s proprietary and confidential materials on Mr. Wang’s   
   computers and other devices.   
      
   Court records don’t list an attorney for Mr. Wang, who prosecutors said flew   
   from San Francisco to China hours after the June 2018 search and remains   
   there. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.   
      
   The charges against Mr. Wang were announced as part of a series of arrests and   
   indictments secured by federal prosecutors in California, Arizona and New   
   York. Officials said the actions stemmed from a task force convened in   
   February between the Justice    
   Dept and the Commerce Dept, which is focused on policing regulations   
   restricting the export of sensitive technologies to foreign adversaries such   
   as China and Russia.   
      
   “Foreign nation-states are working hard to acquire our most sensitive   
   technologies,” said Matthew Axelrod, assistant secretary for export   
   enforcement at the Commerce Dept. “We’re working even harder to stop   
   them.”   
      
   In another action announced Tuesday, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn said French   
   authorities had arrested Nikolaos “Nikos” Bogonikolos, a Greek national   
   who operated companies in Greece and the Netherlands and allegedly helped   
   supply Russia with    
   battlefield equipment and advanced electronics used for quantum cryptography   
   and nuclear-weapons testing. The U.S. will seek his extradition, he said.   
      
   The U.S. attorney in Arizona also announced the arrests of Oleg Patsulya and   
   Vasilii Besedin, two Russian citizens who lived near Miami and who authorities   
   said were involved in a scheme to circumvent U.S. export controls by supplying   
   aircraft parts to    
   Russian airlines.   
      
   Lawyers for Messrs. Patsulya and Besedin didn’t immediately respond to   
   requests for comment. Court records don’t list a lawyer for Mr. Bogonikolos.   
      
   In a complaint filed Friday, prosecutors said Messrs. Patsulya and Besedin   
   supplied a Boeing 737 carbon disc-brake system and other parts to at least   
   three different Russian airlines. Two of the airlines fell under export   
   restrictions announced by the    
   Commerce Dept last year, they said. FBI agents last week conducted a raid of a   
   condominium in the Trump Towers in Sunny Isles Beach FL, which was owned by a   
   company controlled by the two men.   
      
   The U.S. has said it is stepping up enforcement of the sanctions and exports   
   controls on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine last year. In March, the   
   Justice Dept said it would hire dozens of new prosecutors to staff its section   
   dedicated to    
   investigating sanctions and export-controls violations.    
      
   “This threat is as significant as ever. So we are trying to marshal our   
   resources and prioritize these cases,” said Matthew Olsen, head of the   
   Justice Dept’s National Security Division.   
      
   The U.S. export-controls regulations are administered by the Commerce Dept’s   
   Bureau of Industry and Security, which has also taken steps to bulk up its   
   enforcement capabilities, issuing new policies that encourage companies to   
   report potential    
   violations.   
      
   The two departments last month levied a $300 million fine against two   
   subsidiaries of Seagate Technology Holdings, saying the Dublin-based   
   data-storage equipment provider had continued to sell hard drives to China’s   
   Huawei Technologies despite    
   tightened export controls imposed on the company in 2020.   
      
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-apple-engineer-indicted-in-crack   
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