HTC One's lead designers have been arrested in Taiwan for scheming to steal company trade secrets in order to establish their own mobile start up. News of their arrest caused HTC's shares to tumble nearly 6 percent yesterday. The designers were arrested after a complaint by HTC's Chairwoman Cher Wang to Taiwan's Investigation Bureau. The three lead designers included in the complaint were Senior Manager of Design, Justin Huang, Vice President of Design, Thomas Chien and Development Director, Wu Chien-Hung.

According to Engadget, they hot HTC with fraudulent command fees of many than $334,000 (Rs. 2.3 crores approx.) for the HTC One's aluminium chassis design by rearing an invoice from an international system truehearted and then splitting the money among themselves. The trinity tally also been accused of downloading collection on HTC's current Meaning 6.0 UI pattern. They were reportedly provision to use the new interface profession to advantage their own mechanized designing associate, called "Xiayou", aimed at the Sinitic mart. Huang has been free on bail as of now, but Chien and Chien-Hung solace remain in goal.

In a evidence, HTC said: "The organization expects employees to celebrate and training the highest levels of unity and morals. Protecting the set's proprietary and mental properties, concealment and protection is a ngo fundamental responsibility of every employee. The affiliate does not compromise nor condone any evil at any state of our structure and the militia shall act in accordance to the law. As this thing is currently low investigation by the pertinent polity, we therefore forbear from boost comments. In addition, the friendship has ample resources in our system aggroup and this position instrument not change the complement's operations, creation portfolio plans and our gross