Windtec: Espionage Scandal Does Not End

EnergyRenewables ♦ Published: March 21, 2012; 15:22 ♦ (Vindobona)

A former employee of the AMSC-owned Windtec alleges to be pursued by a secret service. The U.S. should have intervened at the Austrian justice.

Windtec: Espionage Scandal Does Not End / Picture: © Vindobona.org

A former manager at the Klagenfurt-bases wind power company Windtec, which is a subsidiary of the Nasdaq-listed AMSC (American Superconductor) acted as spy for the Chinese competitor Sinovel. A one-year imprisonment was imposed by the Austrian court.

Now, the former spy says to be pursued by a secret service. His lawyer Gunter Huainigg confirmed these statements. By the beginning…