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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge says a Chinese woman accused of conspiring to steal trade secrets from U.S. seed companies and send them to China will be tried alongside her brother.
Mo Yun is among seven people charged in the case, though only she and her brother have been arrested. The other five are believed to be in China.
Investigators say they worked for a Chinese company and conspired to steal patented seed corn from cornfields in Iowa and Illinois to ship it to China.
The judge overseeing the case acknowledged Friday that evidence against her is thinner than evidence against the other suspects. But he said that wasn't enough to hold a separate trial, as her attorneys requested.
Mo is married to the chairman of a large biotechnology firm in China.
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