A Chinese national has been sentenced to ten-plus years in federal prison for conspiring to steal biotech rice samples at a Kansas research facility. Weiqiang Zhang is a research scientist who was caught trying to leave the U.S. with the biotech seeds in his luggage. Zhang was convicted last year for conspiracy to steal trade secrets, conspiracy to commit interstate transportation with stolen property.
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