Motorola’s Chinese Rival Hytera Indicted in U.S. Over Stolen Secrets

Workers work at Hytera Industrial Park in Longgang district of Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Feb. 10, 2020. Photo: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — Hytera Communications Corp., a Chinese technology company, was accused by U.S. prosecutors of stealing trade secrets for mobile radio technology developed by Motorola Solutions Inc.

Hytera recruited and hired Motorola employees to take proprietary information from internal databases from 2007 to 2020, according to a 21-count federal indictment unsealed Monday in Chicago. The names of others charged in the indictment remained sealed.