Taipei: A Taiwanese employee of Chinese IC design company Novosense Microelectronics has been indicted for allegedly operating the company's business in Taiwan without government approval. According to Focus Taiwan, Kidder Shen, 43, the company's East Asia sales director, was indicted Monday by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office for alleged violations of the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area. The indictment states that Shen joined Novosense Microelectronics in 2021 and rented an office in Taipei to serve as the company's local base of operations. Prosecutors allege that Shen later hired four former employees of Texas Instruments to conduct sales, customer service, and related operations in Taiwan for the Chinese company. Because Novosense Microelectronics had not obtained government approval to establish operations in Taiwan, those activities were illegal under Taiwanese law, prosecutors said.