INDYSTAR OCT. $9,2013$

Two former Eli Lilly and Co$.$ scientists have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing trade secrets and passing them on to a competitor in China.

The indictment, unsealed Tuesday, charges the two senior biologists with stealing nine trade secrets from $2010$ to $2012$ having to do with cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes research being done by Lilly.

The $20-$page indictment says that Guoqing Cao and Shuyu "Dan" Li$,$ who are both Indianapolis$-$area residents, passed on the proprietary Lilly information to Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co$.$ in Shanghai, one of China's largest drug companies. Jiangsu Hengrui competes with Lilly in China and recently won approval to market an injectible drug in the United States.

Both Cao and Li are Chinese nationals who earned Ph$.$Ds in the United States and became U$.$S$.$ citizens. Both took jobs at Lilly as senior biologists. They were arrested Oct. $1.$

In a statement, Lilly said, $"$We are appalled and very disappointed by the theft allegedly committed by these former Lilly employees. Theft of Lilly's confidential information harms Lilly by depriving the company of the value of its costly research efforts while giving unfair competitive advantage to others."

A Lilly executive who testified in court said the trade secrets that were allegedly leaked cost Lilly more than $$55$ million to discover over the course of $10$ years.

U$.$S$.$ Attorney Joe Hogsett said it's unclear whether the two scientists tried to profit personally from their actions.

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