A Joya Williams, a Coca Cola employee It started with him wanting to tell Pepsi everything. The reason was that he was being treated ‘badly’ at work.

I do not consider this information as an “opportunity”, fair competition management Look what Pepsi did!

Joya Williams, who worked at Coca Cola, was the administrative assistant to the head of global marketing.

Gift of jewelry Until that event in 2006 that would shake the world. Williams, who had access to all sensitive and confidential emails, documents and unreleased products, tried to sell the company’s confidential documents to PepsiCo. The reason was that he was being treated badly in the company.

Williams has a criminal past Edmund Duhaney and worked with Ibrahim Dimson, whom they appointed as an intermediary. Dimson posed as a senior executive at Coca-Cola and sent a letter to a Pepsi manager claiming to have sold confidential documents.

PepsiCo, which received a letter from its rival, was confused as to why it was trying to make sense of the incident.

In this letter sent under the pseudonym “Dirk”It was said that Coca Cola’s top secret information could be shared. PepsiCo immediately reported this situation to its rival Coca Cola, and the company soon began to resolve the incident by cooperating with the FBI.

Two weeks later, Williams Dimson Jerry He received a response from a named PepsiCo employee. In the letter, he asked for proof that this information was shareable. The proof came shortly thereafter. He faxed 14 pages of documents containing Coca Cola’s confidential information and requested that $5,000 be wired to his bank account.

He also sent information about products that did not come to market.

Mark Dollins

This incident, which was quite dangerous for a company, had gradually become bigger. Williams, who handed a bag full of special recipes and bottles to Jerry, closed deals worth millions of dollars. But there was one thing he was missing, that was Jerry actually He was an FBI special agent, not a PepsiCo employee.

Because Coca Cola decided to do this work together with the FBI, immediately after the information Pepsi provided it. Information received through the agent, It soon became clear who had stolen it.

On July 5, 2006 The trio was arrested for fraud and illegally obtaining trade secrets. Coca Cola said in its statement that the “production information” these fraudsters were trying to sell was still safe.

The following statement made after the incident by Pepsi spokesman Mark Dollins, who gained much respect for calling Coca Cola and informing them, is etched in memory: “We did what any responsible group would do. Competition may be fierce, but it must always be fair and legitimate.”

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