India, Feb. 7 -- A former Google software engineer is facing indictment and espionage charges for stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets with the aim of benefiting two Chinese firms for which he was secretly working.

The software engineer was identified Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38.

As per the US Department of Justice website, Ding is facing seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets.

Ding was initially indicted in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade secrets.

"The superseding indictment returned today describes seven categories of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets," the Departmen...