Three Silicon Valley Engineers Indicted for Allegedly Stealing Google Trade Secrets and Sending Data to Iran
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Summary
Three Silicon Valley engineers - Samaneh Ghandali, Soroor Ghandali, and Mohammadjavad Khosravi - have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Google and other technology companies and transferring sensitive data to Iran. The defendants, Iranian nationals residing in San Jose, were arrested and appeared in federal court. The case involves serious allegations of intellectual property theft and potential national security implications related to data transfer to Iran.
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The indictment identified the defendants as Iranian nationals
Soroor was in the U.S. on a nonimmigrant student visa. Samaneh later became a U.S. citizen, and Khosravi, her husband, became a U.S. legal resident
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