On September 29, 2020, two former employees of company NPIC, a manufacturer of pet treats, were sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment and 36 months of probation for theft of trade secrets. Zhu was the former R&D head of department NPIC employee for 10 years before he was recruited for a competitor company, Gambol Pet Group CO, Ltd. Another employee Lei, worked with Zhu to illegally download all of R&D process data prior to leaving the company. They used this information for their work at Gambol by saving it on electronic storage devices and to the computers at the competitor company. This was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Andrew Stover the assistant U.S. attorney. Civil litigation is ongoing between the two companies.

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