Three charged with stealing Coca-Cola trade secrets
By The Associated Press
Posted 4:20AM on Wednesday, July 5, 2006
<p>Three people have been arrested and charged with stealing confidential information from The Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell it to rival PepsiCo Inc., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.</p><p>The suspects include an executive administrative assistant at Atlanta-based Coke, Joya Williams, who is accused of rifling through corporate files and stuffing documents and a new Coca-Cola product into a personal bag.</p><p>Williams, 41, of Norcross, Ga., and 30-year-old Ibrahim Dimson of New York and 43-year-old Edmund Duhaney of Decatur, Ga., are charged with wire fraud and unlawfully stealing and selling Coke trade secrets, federal prosecutors said.</p><p>They are expected to appear before a federal magistrate judge on Thursday in Atlanta.</p>