World | Updated Feb 03, 2007 at 07:09pm IST

Coke employee guilty of espionage

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: A federal court in Atlanta has convicted a former employee of soft-drink manufacturer Coca Cola, guilty of industrial espionage.

Joya Williams is accused of providing confidential documents and samples of unreleased products of Coca cola to Pepsi Cola. She was to have received $150,000 if Pepsi paid for the confidential information.

The Jury in the case had been undecided till Friday. What finally clinched the case against Williams, were recorded phone calls between two of her co-conspirators.

Williams faces 10 years in prison, while the two co-accused are awaiting sentencing.

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