MONTREAL, 15 November 2022, (TON): Canadian federal police arrested a former electric vehicle battery researcher at public utility Hydro-Quebec on charges of espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China.
The man, who was recently fired by the utility, was taken into custody at his home in Candiac, a suburb of Montreal, by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police national security squad.
A statement said “Yuesheng Wang, 35, faces charges under the Criminal Code and the Security of Information Act for having allegedly obtained trade secrets to benefit the People’s Republic of China, to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests.”
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