Prosecutors charged seven people from a Samsung partner company over Samsung technology and China. Four allegedly hid factory files three times.

Key points Samsung Display factory files were allegedly hidden for China A Samsung Display engineer found the files Samsung SDS code allegedly went to a Chinese company On November 11, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office charged four employees of a Samsung partner company, including a senior executive, with trying to take Samsung Display's LCD manufacturing data for use at a Chinese company. The four weren't detained. In the same announcement, prosecutors charged three former executives of the same company, two former chief executives and a former vice president, along with the company itself. They're accused of using software code that belongs to Samsung SDS (018260) without permission and giving core parts of it to a Chinese company, Hankyung (한국경제) reported. The reports don't name the company or the Chinese companies involved.

This excerpt comes from the named source. Read the original for the full reporting.