The Bureau: According to U.S. prosecutors, the scheme dates back to 2006, when Hytera recruited Motorola employees and directed them to remove proprietary and trade-secret information related to Motorola’s digital mobile radio technology. Investigators say the stolen material — including source code — allowed Hytera engineers to develop competing products at a fraction of the cost it took Motorola to develop the technology after years of research and engineering.
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But beyond the courtroom, Hytera has been at the center of geopolitical disputes over Chinese telecom firms’ access to Western communications infrastructure — disputes that have repeatedly placed Canada between U.S. security concerns and economic ties with China.
Those tensions first exploded in 2017 when Canada approved Hytera’s takeover of Vancouver-based Norsat International, a high-tech communications firm that manufactures satellite-communication systems used by the U.S. military…