manynovel Chapter 479
Chapter 479
In the solemn court, the media reporters of the Lighthouse Country reported this rare transnational espionage case truthfully.
The agents of Fobole not only accused Hitachi of commercial crimes against IBM, but also attempted to drag the entire Sakura Country into the accusation.
In Tom's vivid description, this was an organized and planned espionage case.
At the same time, the authorities of the Sakura Country also began an urgent lobbying campaign. They spent a lot of money to buy off congressmen and media tycoons one by one, trying to make this matter a small matter and a small matter nothing.
At this time, a series of discussions about this matter were also taking place in the White House.
Everyone, including the President, knew this tacitly.
James, the Secretary of Commerce, waved his huge fist and slammed the conference table.
This was the highlight of his career.
This action led by him opened the curtain of the economic sanctions imposed by the Lighthouse Country on the Sakura Country.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Sakura Country shamelessly stole our latest scientific research results. I propose that economic sanctions be imposed on Sakura Country from now on. We must let these dwarfs learn a lesson from the iron fist of our Lighthouse Country."
While speaking, the Minister of Commerce placed a thick stack of materials that had been prepared in front of the participants.
The President looked at the Minister of Commerce meaningfully, and the latter nodded slightly to the President to show respect.
Everything is self-evident.
All the people present were bigwigs and discerning people. They did not ask James why he could prepare such perfect materials in such a short time.
Now, everyone is arguing about whether to prosecute Watanabe and others for espionage or just ordinary commercial espionage?
After a series of debates among the bigwigs, the president finally made the final decision.
"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone should think about whether we really want to push the other side to the limit.
Perhaps, it is in our interest to leave a little buffer."
Although James was unwilling, the president had already set the tone. Obviously, he supported making a big deal out of a small matter.
It was not in the interests of the Lighthouse Country to start an economic war with the world's second largest economy at this time.
In the end, everyone unanimously decided to classify this incident as an ordinary commercial espionage case.
However, the punishment for the Sakura Country must be severe and severe.
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Lighthouse Country.
In the solemn court.
The judge waved the hammer representing the majesty of the law.
"Silence, now I declare that the commercial espionage case headed by Watanabe and Yamamura is established..."
Watanabe, Yamamura and other middle and senior executives of the Hitachi Group in the defendant's seat were dejected and silent.
At the same time, the representatives of the Sakura Country sitting in the hearing seat also breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't care about the life and death of Watanabe and others. He even complained to them in his heart, why couldn't they do things more cleanly? They just made trouble for themselves.
The representatives of Sakura Country have warned Watanabe and others, telling them not to talk nonsense or talk too much, everything is just, and can only be their personal behavior.
Watanabe and others seemed to have accepted their fate, lowered their heads, and didn't say a word.
They seemed to have already accepted the arrangement of fate.
They didn't shout to find a big lawyer, nor did they shout loudly for injustice. They could already guess that they were involved in a carefully designed conspiracy.
And the mastermind of this conspiracy is likely to be the Lighthouse Country CIA, or even the Lighthouse Country authorities.
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Dragon Country.
The news that the Lighthouse Country tried the Sakura Country in a transnational commercial espionage case really shocked the world.
Looking at the fragmentary clues collected from many aspects, Mr. Yang thought of Fengyun unconsciously in his mind.
He was 100% sure that all this was related to Fengyun.
He never thought that the conditions Fengyun agreed to were so big?
This time, the world's two largest economic powers were included.
"Ah." The old man sighed heavily. It seemed that he owed the other party more and more.
Lighthouse Country.
With the exposure of Hitachi's commercial espionage case, not only the Lighthouse Country, but also major media in the world reported on this case, which was called the largest transnational commercial espionage case in the 20th century.
People couldn't imagine how Hitachi stole the core secrets of IBM under layers of strict security.
Under the chain reaction, IBM's stock price plummeted. People couldn't believe that a country that even its core secrets were stolen.How much development can a company that cannot be protected have in the future?
This was something that the designers of the game did not expect.
For this reason, the president of IBM had to come out to dispel the rumor. He claimed that the culprit of the incident was a Sakura engineer from the Lighthouse, and he admitted that IBM had loopholes in internal control.
So, an internal purge was quietly launched within IBM.
Many Sakura engineers or managers were purged, they lost their current jobs, and were blacklisted in the industry.
Even Fobole strengthened their daily monitoring of them.
A grain of sand in the era, falling on everyone's head, is an extremely heavy mountain.
These Sakura people who originally yearned for a free life, only realized at this time that they did not belong to this society that claimed to be able to tolerate everything.
Sakura Country.
What no one expected was that things were completely reversed here.
Although the court of the Lighthouse Country found Watanabe and others guilty, and they did not continue to appeal.
However, considering some other political factors, no actual sentence was imposed.
The mastermind Watanabe was fined $50,000 and suspended for five years.
Minister Yamamura of the Management Department was fined $30,000 and suspended for three years.
As for some other accomplices, they were also fined less than $10,000 and suspended for less than one year.
In the end, the court ruled that Hitachi was not guilty. They were not aware of it. It was the misconduct of some people below that led to this vicious incident.
However, Hitachi had to bear the management responsibility. The company was fined $5 million and comprehensive sanctions were imposed on Hitachi's electronic products.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Commerce of the Lighthouse Country issued a series of sanctions against the electronic products of the Sakura Country, namely the famous 301 sanctions clause.
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When Watanabe and others were extradited back to their country, they never thought that they would become heroes in the eyes of the people.