Forex – A South Korean executive accused of stealing semiconductor data developed by Samsung Electronics has been detained again amid new allegations of theft of chip processing technology.
The Seoul Central District Court issued a detention order on Thursday for Choi Jinseog on the grounds that he was a flight risk, a court official said, declining to provide further details. Choi, a former Samsung executive who ran a chipmaking enterprise in China, had been the subject of a high-profile industrial espionage case since July 2023 and was arrested and released on bail last November. Choi’s lawyer Kim Pilsung told Reuters that his client denied any wrongdoing and that the information he was accused of stealing was public. Choi was not charged because of the new allegations, his lawyer said.
