Taiwanese prosecutors said Friday, a previous senior manager at Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has been pointed out for stealing and selling 5,700 iPhones in China worth approximately $1.56 million.
Foxconn collects products for global brands such as Sony and Apple; it is a world’s largest contract electronics maker and assembler. It utilizes about one million employees at its industrial unit across China.
The prosecutors said, the Taiwanese manager, recognized by his family name Tsai, worked in the testing department and instructed eight employees at Foxconn’s factory in the Southern mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen to smuggle out about thousands of iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s.
New Taipei district prosecutor's office stated that, the senior manager and his co-conspirators sold the testing phones, to stores in Shenzhen and made nearly TWD 50 million ($1.56 million) from 2013 to 2014,which were supposed to be crumb.
Foxconn reported the case to Taiwanese authorities following an internal audit and Tsai was questioned after he come back to the islet previous this year and was released on bail. According to prosecutors, Tsai was charged with break of trust and tolerated a maximum 10-year jail term. The contractor has been punched with a several number of scandals in recent years from employee bad behavior to labor arguments.
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