TEKNOLOGY - A former senior manager of Foxconn accused of smuggling as many as 5,700 units of the iPhone from the testing facility. The device is stolen and then sold to retail stores in Shenzhen region with a value of 1.56 million US dollars, or approximately USD 21 billion.
Foxconn is one of the largest production plants in the world of gadgets. The company is known to assemble smartphone for Sony and Apple (iPhone). The device production plant will be tested at the testing center, one of which is located in Shenzhen.
The manager only identified surnamed Tsai. To be sure, he worked on the testing device.
Tsai suspected of committing acts of theft throughout 2013 and 2014. The manager is involved 8 employees other testing.
KompasTekno from information reported by GSM Arena, Saturday (12/03/2016), stolen unit consisting of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S.
At that time, two types of iPhone are actually sent to Foxconn to be tested. However, instead of doing the work in accordance with the procedure, Tsai and her colleagues even sell the iPhone trials.
Tsai known action when Foxconn conduct internal audits and found irregularities. Finally, the company also reported the matter to the authorities.
As a result of this action, sued Tsai has committed a breach of trust and sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.
Before the theft committed Tsai, Foxconn also have experienced similar things. Precisely in 2014, five former employees sued the Taiwanese technology giant with allegations of breach of trust.
The fifth employee is requesting money worth 160 million Taiwan dollars, or around Rp 67.4 billion to suppliers of goods. The money requested outside the company's procedures, ostensibly as a cost launch a process of quality check (QC) and buy their goods supply.
