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Ex-ASML employee sentenced to three years' imprisonment for sharing company secrets with Russia

He accessed files beyond the scope of his employment for several years.

Russia is a relative tech minnow in the context of ASML’s pedigree, so it would naturally be interested in gaining access to some of the proprietary knowledge and technologies that are kept from the public domain. But Rotterdam District Court’s judgment applied internationally agreed security laws brought in, back in 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea. The judge ruling on this case noted that, even though the information shared with the Russian contact may be old or outdated, it would still be “of great value to a country with a (much) lower level of knowledge,” like Russia.

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