Three people have been arrested and charged with stealing confidential information about drink recipes from The Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell it to rival PepsiCo Inc., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The suspects include an executive administrative assistant at Atlanta-based Coke, Joya Williams, who is accused of rifling through corporate files and stuffing documents and a new Coca-Cola product into a personal bag.
Williams, 41, of Norcross, Ga., and 30-year-old Ibrahim Dimson of New York and 43-year-old Edmund Duhaney of Decatur, Ga., are charged with wire fraud and unlawfully stealing and selling Coke trade secrets, federal prosecutors said.
They are expected to appear before a federal magistrate judge on Thursday in Atlanta.
Spokespersons from Coke and PepsiCo did not immediately return calls Wednesday seeking comment.
2 comments:
hmmm things don't go better with coke...
i remember years ago some guy got arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing the frito-lay frito's recipe...we made jokes about it for weeks...
You guys take your corn chips and fizzy drinks too seriously ! Here you'd have to kill someone to get 10 years.
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