23 Nov 2008, 0117 hrs IST, IANS
Times of India.
NEW YORK: An Indian techie, indicted by a federal jury of theft of trade-secret data of Intel worth $1 billion and wire fraud, has pleaded not guilty.
Bishwamohan Pani, 33, was arraigned before a federal court in Boston on Thursday afternoon. Pani pleaded “not guilty” on all five counts, a court clerk said on Friday.
The next hearing in has been scheduled for Jan 13, 2009.
On November 6, a federal grand jury had indicted Pani of stealing trade secret information from Intel, where he worked till June, before joining its rival AMD. The indictment alleges that days before joining AMD, Pani remotely downloaded 13 “top-secret” Intel documents, along with other confidential information of the company.
These included a document which explained how encrypted documents could be reviewed when not connected to Intel’s computer system. It also included information about Intel’s processes for designing its newest generation of microprocessors.
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