Selling secret technologies of the Russian Federation and China: in France, they judge the management of OMMIC

According to French journalists, charges against two managers of a high -tech company were presented on March 24, but the information was confirmed only on July 27 in court. In addition, it is reported that nine representatives of the company management were detained on suspicion of transferring secret development. OMMIC is a French leader in the field of semiconductors for the telecommunications and space industry, gradually turning control of the 63-year-old Chinese businessman Ryoadan Z.

, who became the President of the company in 2018 after the acquisition of 94% of shares through an investment fund created in France. Mark R. , CEO of OMMIC, and Chinese head of the company are accused of transferring processes, documents or files to foreign states that can harm the country's fundamental interests. Such a crime provides a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of 225 thousand euros. According to the investigation, Mark R.

organized several bypass schemes for conscious transmission of powerful chips and information about secret technologies to China and Russia, including the control of nitride gallium, a material that can significantly increase the power of semiconductors. A complex scheme for the transmission of prohibited equipment to Moscow and bypass the trade embargo, imposed on the country after the annexation of Crimea, using the path through China, was also installed. Mark R.

, who was originally in custody, was released under the court supervision of the Paris Court of Appeal, the source in the judiciary reported. We will remind, in March it was reported that in China detained a citizen of Japan on suspicion of espionage. A man aged 50-60 has worked in the country for two decades. Also, in early February, the Pentagon and the US Air Force found an unknown balloon that flew above the area of ​​flight of civilian vessels.