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China breakin mystery

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  • Mysterious factory break-in raises suspicions about Chinese visit
  • It was an unusual burglary, in which four or five laptops were stolen from a Scottish renewable energy manufacturer in the dead of a March night in 2011.
  • Nothing else was taken from the company and the crime, while irritating, went unsolved and forgotten – until a few years later pictures began emerging that showed a remarkably similar project manufactured in the world’s most populous country.
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  • making a connection between the break-in and the politician’s visit,
  • Max Carcas, who was business development director at Pelamis until 2012, said the similarities between the Scottish and Chinese products were striking. Speaking publicly for the first time, he said: “Some of the details may be different but they are clearly testing a Pelamis concept.”
  • It might be that China’s engineers had been working along roughly the same lines as the UK engineers. Or it may be that China attempted to replicate the design based on pictures of the Pelamis project freely available on the web.
  • elamis was targeted by China, which has been repeatedly accused of pursuing an aggressive industrial espionage strategy.
  • “It was a tremendous feather in our cap to be the only place in the UK outside of London that the Chinese vice-premier visited,”
  • “We did have a break-in about 10 weeks after, when a number of laptops were stolen. It was curious that whoever broke in went straight to our office on the second floor rather than the other company on the first floor or the ground floor.”
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