Kenji Adachi, company spokesman, said that the said employee is accused of selling company secrets to Russian parties 9 times during the period from September 2005 to May 2005, in return for the sum of one million yens (approximately 8700 US dollars). The Japanese News Agency (Kyodo) said that the man sold secrets regarding a type of semi-conductors technology, which can be used in the radar of military submarines, fighter planes and rocket guiding system. Kyodo said that the Russian agent has disguised as an Italian businessman and persuaded the Japanese employee that he would use this information in manufacturing mobile phones, digital cameras and electrical cooking appliances.

This is considered the fifth time since 1989 that the Japanese police investigated on commercial or industrial espionage operations, in which Russian officials are involved. In 1991, some Russian officials sought obtaining semi-conductor chips, which are prohibited to be exported to the former Soviet Union. There was also another Russian attempt to obtain information on the technology of the developed Japanese rockets from a former officer in the Japanese defense department in 2002.

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