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 Privately held Cargill filed the case on Thursday in the U.S.
District Court of Colorado, accusing Jason Kuan of breach of
contract.(http://1.usa.gov/1lmQx3S)
Kuan resigned on Aug. 1 without prior notice.
Kuan had worked for Cargill's Case Ready business, which is involved
in processing and packaging meat for retailers.
He joined JBS, the world's biggest beef producer in early August,
after working for Cargill for about 20 years.
According to the lawsuit, the company found Kuan's resignation
suspicious and conducted a forensic analysis on Kuan's laptop, which
was owned by Cargill.
The analysis showed that Kuan "downloaded hundreds of highly
confidential and proprietary Cargill Case Ready files to an external
hard drive."
It claims that the hard drive was not returned to the
Minneapolis-based company upon Kuan's resignation.
Kuan will lead JBS' new stand-alone Case Ready Division, according
to an announcement by JBS cited in the lawsuit.
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"Kuan will inevitably disclose and use the valuable Cargill
information in the course of his employment position with JBS
because he is developing a Case Ready meat business for JBS; this is
the same industry and the same type of position Kuan had for many
years at Cargill," the company said.
Neither Cargill nor JBS could immediately be reached for comment
outside normal business hours.
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta in Bangalore; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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