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Hitachi enters gui
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United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — The
Japanese electronics corpora
tion Hitachi Ltd. entered a sur
prise guilty plea to charges of
plotting to steal IBM computer
secrets and was fined $10,000.
“The trial is something like a
fish bone stuck in the throat and
our decision to plead guilty is to
remove this and concentrate on
our business,” Hitachi Vice Pres
ident Keisuke Arai said in
Tokyo today.
Hitachi, which has annual re
venues of more than $ 15 billion,
admitted its guilt Tuesday after
a plea-bargain in which the U.S.
government promised not to File
more criminal charges in the in
dustrial espionage case. The
company also apologized to the
court.
Hitachi employees Kenji
Hayashi, a senior engineer, and
Isao Ohnishi, a software section
manager, also pleaded guilty
and were Fined $10,000 and
$4,000, respectively. Hayashi
also was put on Five years unsu
pervised probation and Ohnishi
two years with the stipulation
they conduct no business in the
United States.
“We think we lacked pru
dence in our information
gathering activities,” Arai said.
“We are determined not to re
peat this case.”
The Fine — handed down
against the company by U.S. Dis
trict Judge Spencer Williams —
was the maximum according to
law.
Hitachi and 17 people were
indicted in June after an FBI
undercover sting operation in
California’s famed “Silicon Val
ley” disclosed they had con
spired to steal IBM secrets and
transport the data to Japan.
The guilty pleas were
announced when attorneys for
the defendants had been sche
duled to ask the court to dismiss
the charges.
The attorneys had main
tained since the one-count in
dictment was issued the govern
ment engaged in selective pro
secution of the Japanese corpor
ation and entrapped the defen-
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dants into the plan to steal the
IBM documents.
Hitachi still must defend itself
against a civil lawsuit filed by
IBM which seeks the return of
documents containing trade sec
rets IBM said were stolen and an
unspecified amount of damages
that could run into the millions
of dollars, according to its attor
neys.
Arai said IBM and Hitachi
already have agreed on a 60-day
truce in the trial and will talk
about an out-of-court settlement
in the case.
An American involved, Tom
Yoshida, president of NCL Data
Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., did
not join in the plea agreement
and is still scheduled to go on
trial April 14.
As part of the agreement, the
United States agreed charges
against Kanimaga Inoue, a
programmer with Hitachi
America Ltd. of San Francisco
and Keizo Shirai, of Nissei Elec
tronics Ltd., of Japan would be
“resolved” without a plea of guil
ty and without a trial.
Hitachi earlier pleaded inno
cent to the criminal charges,
contending the FBI was acting
as IBM’s agent in an effort to
injure Hitachi’s ability to com
pete with IBM in the Field of
computer software compatible
with new sophisticated systems.
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701 Rudder. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.
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