An Indian engineer named Bishwasmohan Pani was accused of misappropriating confidential information from Intel Corporation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) filed the charges on Mr.Pani following a raid in his house which reportedly yielded 13 top-secret files with design plans of Intel’s processor chips.

He worked as a designer at the company’s plant in Boston. FBI’s criminal complaint states that Pani declared his decision to resign from Intel in May for joining Advanced Micro Devices(AMD). However, he intimated Intel that he would continue to work at the company till June 11 in order to have access to Intel’s computer network and simultaneously started working for AMD from June 2. He allegedly downloaded the secret files remotely to use them for his personal gains.

However, Bishwamohan Pani refuted the charges by saying that the design files were not intended for sale. It supposedly was for the help of his wife who still works with Intel. The case is being tried at US District Court in Boston. Although Mr pani was not put behind the bars, he had to surrender his passport to the US authorities.