Court told of Sinovel 'cash and women' as AMSC man is jailed

Crime scene: the office of AMSC subsidiary Windtec in Austria

Chinese wind turbine giant Sinovel used money and women to persuade an embittered AMSC worker to steal key software code, a court in Austria has heard.

Dejan Karabrasevic, a 38-year-old Serb, was sentenced to one year in jail and a further two years' probation after admitting a charge of fraudulent misuse of data at Klagenfurt district court.

The software engineer was also ordered to pay former employer Windtec – the Austrian subsidiary of US wind turbine technology group AMSC – €200,000 ($270,000) in damages.

The case centres around key elements of the US company's wind-power electronics software code, which AMSC claims Sinovel is using illegally in its 1.5MW turbine.

The court heard claims that Karabrasevic, who was embittered after being…

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