An­oth­er sci­en­tist pleads guilty for his role in a scheme to sell GSK's trade se­crets in Chi­na

An­oth­er Chi­nese sci­en­tist em­broiled in an al­leged plot to steal trade se­crets from Glax­o­SmithK­line and sell the work in Chi­na has plead­ed guilty to a sin­gle con­spir­a­cy count.

Tao Li, the charges claim, set up Renophar­ma in Nan­jing to­geth­er with Yu Xue — the GSK sci­en­tist ac­cused of smug­gling con­fi­den­tial re­search out of the phar­ma gi­ant — and Yan Mei. Xue plead­ed guilty days ago to a count against her, which could mean up to 10 years in prison, though she con­tend­ed she didn’t be­lieve she was do­ing any­thing wrong.

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