A former SoftBank employee accused of illegally taking out trade secrets related to new high-speed and large-capacity communication standards such as 5G, the Tokyo District Court said, ``A malicious crime of taking out trade secrets filled with important information. ', he dismissed his claim of innocence and handed down a guilty verdict with a suspended sentence.
Three years ago, Defendant Honosho (47), who was a former SoftBank employee, accessed the company's server from his home computer and sent three files of technical information, such as 5G, which are trade secrets, to his address by e-mail. I was accused of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, saying that I illegally took it out by doing something like that.
The former employee claimed innocence, saying, ``The information taken out is not a trade secret.''
In the ruling on the 9th, Chief Judge Masakazu Kamakura of the Tokyo District Court said, ``The file contains information about the network that SoftBank has built over many years, and information on the base station that was planning to switch to 5G, etc. We are looking for future plans. It contained important information that could be known," and acknowledged that it was a trade secret.
On top of that, ``It was a malicious crime that brought out trade secrets filled with important information, such as plans to support 5G, which has become an urgent issue for mobile phone carriers, and the motivation to use it for work at a new job is selfish. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison, 4 years suspended, and a fine of 1 million yen.