TAIPEI (AFP) – A senior manager at Taiwan’s technology giant Foxconn has admitted stealing thousands of smartphones, prosecutors said on Friday, in a racket that reportedly made over NT$24 million (S$1 million).
Foxconn is the world’s largest contract electronics maker and assembles products for international brands such as Apple, Sony and Nokia. It employs about one million workers at its factories across China.
The Taiwanese deputy sales manager worked at the company’s factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, which assembles products such as Apple’s iPhone 6.
Prosecutors said “thousands” of phones were stolen in the scam, which they believe involved a network of accomplices.
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