Chinese National Sentenced for Exporting Fake Circuit Chips to US
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Chinese national to 15 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $63,000 fine for conspiracy to sell counterfeit computer chips to someone in the U.S., after a co-conspirator asked a U.S.…
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citizen to steal integrated circuits from the U.S. military and replace those with fake ones, the Justice Department said (here). Daofu Zhang. who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, and two accomplices each owned businesses in China that bought and sold the fake chips, including two packages Zhang sent to the U.S. person in November 2015 containing eight counterfeit chips. Zhang’s co-conspirators await sentencing.