Two people have been indicted in an investigation into the alleged delivery of industrial secrets.
A man and a woman were indicted Friday in Paris in an investigation into the alleged delivery of semiconductor industrial secrets to China and Russia, AFP learned on Sunday from a source close to the matter.
Requested, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) confirmed these indictments for criminal association with a view to preparing crimes and misdemeanors punishable by ten years of imprisonment and their placement under judicial supervision.
The man is also arrested for complicity in abuse by manager of a company's property or credit for personal purposescarried out or facilitated through the interposition of foreign people or structures.
When asked, his lawyer Harold Bataille refused to comment.
In this file, says “Ommic”named after a French semiconductor specialist, two French people and two Chinese were indicted in Paris in March 2023including two directors of this company.
Ommic was bought in 2018 by Ruodan Z., a Chinese businessman in his sixties living in his country, who became president in 2018 via an investment fund created in France.
Marc R., the general director of Ommic, as well as a Chinese executive of the company, were indicted on March 24, 2023 for delivery to a foreign power of processes, documents or files likely to harm fundamental interests of the nation, a crime punishable by 15 years of criminal detention and a fine of 225,000 euros.
According to Le Parisien, which revealed the information, justice suspected Marc R. of having “put in place numerous circumvention schemes to knowingly deliver powerful chips and information on sensitive technologies to China and Russia”, under the leadership of Ruodan Z.
Ommic's mastery of gallium nitride, a material which allows increased power of semiconductors, considered in 2021 as “strategic” by a body of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, would be at the heart of the matter.
But according to Le Parisien at the time, these operations would also have resulted, via a “complex setup”, in “transferring prohibited material to Moscow and circumventing the trade embargo which has targeted the country since the invasion of Crimea, through China.
These industrial secrets, “at the end of the chain, have very probably used to equip the armies of Beijing and Moscowassured the newspaper.
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