Arizona Court Sentences Israeli Ex-Employee in Trade Secret Theft Case

A federal court in Arizona sentenced Guy Galanti, a 48-year-old Israeli citizen who lives in Scottsdale, after he admitted conspiring to steal a trade secret from the high-tech company where he worked. The case was investigated by the FBI’s Phoenix Division, and Galanti pleaded guilty last month. Judge G. Murray Snow ordered him to serve the prison term that began with his arrest in September 2025, followed by three years of supervised release.

Galanti had worked as a senior product manager at Green Technology Investments (GTI), a U.S. company based in Arizona that develops semiconductor inspection machines and new capabilities for them. According to the indictment he admitted, from early January 2025 through August 2025 he conspired with another person tied to a competing Taiwanese company to steal GTI’s new technology, called “Glass Detect Design.”

That system allows inspection machines to detect microscopic defects on glass surfaces instead of silicon. Prosecutors said Galanti secretly sent photos of the design, technical information and software to his co-conspirator over several months, intending to help recreate GTI’s system.

To hide the scheme, the two used encrypted messages, deleted emails and transaction data from Galanti’s work email account, and created fake invoices to document possible money transfers.