The U.S. has charged a Chinese national with economic espionage and theft of the source code of a clustered file system belonging to his former U.S. employer, the Department of Justice said. Xu Jiaqiang is alleged to have committed the crimes for his own benefit and that of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China.

The charges against Xu highlight the intellectual property risks faced by U.S. companies with operations in other countries that the U.S. suspects could be involved in economic espionage.

Xu, who was initially arrested by the FBI in December and was charged with one count of theft of trade secrets, is scheduled to be arraigned on a superseding indictment of charges of economic espionage on Thursday in federal court in New York, the DOJ said.

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