Another Japanese scientist arrested

[tokyojoe]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20020619/sc_nm/crime_genes_dc_1

Chinese national Jiangyu Zhu and Kayoko Kimbara of Japan were taken into custody in San Diego and charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, theft of trade secrets and interstate transportation of stolen property, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Michael Sullivan said.

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Crisscross: Japanese scientist reaches deal in U.S. over stolen scientific data

Japanese scientist Kayoko Kimbara and her Chinese husband and researcher Zhu Jiangyu accused of transporting stolen genetic information have reached a pretrial deal with prosecutors that spared them of criminal indictment, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Kimbara and Zhu, in papers filed in a federal court in Boston on Thursday, admitted to removing at least 20 cartons of materials from a Harvard Medical School laboratory, including research data and various biological materials, without permission and shipping them to the University of Texas in San Antonio, where Zhu had accepted a position to have his own lab.