Professor brothers in Canada and US are both ‘suspected of spying for China’
Canadian police have raided a Montreal firm owned by Shih Ishiang, after his brother Shih Yi-chi was charged in the US
A researcher at McGill University in Montreal whose brother was charged in the United States with stealing technology and sending it to China is now also suspected in the case, a local newspaper said Thursday.
Shih Ishiang, an associate professor in engineering, reportedly used his research position at the school to obtain integrated circuits used in US military radar, jammers and scramblers. The computer chips are at the centre of FBI accusations against his brother Shih Yi-chi, also an associate professor in engineering, at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“I don’t have any comment,” Shih Ishiang said Thursday.
Earlier he told Montreal’s daily La Presse he had purchased the circuits for research purposes. “I was writing an application for a research grant,” he said.
Last Friday, his brother Shih Yi-chi, was arrested by the FBI on charges of scheming “to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license.”
The computer chips had allegedly been shipped to Chengdu GaStone Technology Company (CGTC) in Chengdu, China.
