TuSimple Board Sued Over Espionage Fears, Lax Oversight Claims

March 7, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

Senior leaders of self-driving truck startup TuSimple Holdings Inc. are facing litigation over claims their recent corporate coup may have exposed the company to espionage charges.

An investor sued current and ex-members of the board Monday, hitting them with with wide-ranging misconduct allegations. One of the co-founders named as a defendant is allegedly an affiliate of Sun Dream Inc., a subsidiary of Sina Corp., which operates Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

The shareholder derivative lawsuit accuses the two founders of breaching a national security agreement with the US government when they forced their way back to the company’s ...

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