A US man convicted of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a Chinese state-owned company has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A California judge also fined businessman Walter Liew, 56, more than $28m (£16m) for the crime. Liew and scientist Robert Maegerle were convicted in March of stealing US firm DuPont's secret method of making product whitener titanium dioxide.
The men then sold the trade secrets to China's Pangang Group. "There are many things I would have liked to have done differently," Liew told the court on Thursday. "I regret my actions."
Judge Jeffrey White said the naturalised citizen had "turned against his adopted country over greed" in the economic-espionage case.
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