This one is ridiculous from what the company did to a loyal employee.

She was an American Engineer and Project Manager working for a German industrial technology company.

She was finishing up a large energy project in China. As she was leaving for a trip home with a couple of coworkers and they were all detained by the government.

They told her that she had to fully explain her company's designs and basis of design to Chinese Engineers in order for them to be released. In other words turn over underlying Intellectual Property.

She complied, but actually lied about key aspects of the project's design to protect the company. Unknown to her the Chinese had told the company that she was being held for 'trying to leave the country with state secrets' and they needed to turn over the same things they were asking of her.

When the Chinese figured out she was lying to them they went back to the company with more demands for information before releasing all of them.

She was fired via a cell call the moment she set foot back in the US for jeopardizing the company's businesses in China and for risking the lives of her coworkers.

The Chinese had threatened to execute them all for espionage because she had tried to protect company IP.