At the centre of the case is ex-Caltrans engineer Philip Chaohui He – also known as Philip Hope – who has been indicted in Colorado for allegedly trying to smuggle high-tech parts out of the country in boxes marked “milk powder.”
On Dec. 11, 2011 according to the 18-page indictment, Hope showed up at the Port of Long Beach with five boxes of high-tech components – labelled in Chinese – in his car. He then parked in a secure area where a ZPMC ship was docked which had recently arrived from Shanghai and was scheduled to return four days later.
ZPMC – which is owned by the Chinese government – is the fabricator of the huge steel tower and road decks for the new US$6.3bn Bay Bridge eastern span and Hope worked on the project as a technical engineer.
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