You may remember Dhirendra Prasad. We told you his story in November last year. It is this former Apple employee who stole nearly $20 million from his business through a system of theft of parts, invoices, interception of shipments and many other things.
We also told you that he pleaded guilty to all charges, could face up to 25 years in prison, and his hearing was scheduled for March this year. His audition has already taken place, and what we all already knew has been confirmed: will spend a lot of time in jail.
In his head it was spectacular
Dhirendra Prasad was one of those responsible for ensuring that Apple’s production line did not have supply problems. Basically his function was to manage the purchase and receipt of parts. The point of all of this was that by having access to invoices, being able to ship at will, etc., he saw the opportunity, let’s put it this way, to earn some extra compensation. Well, it’s gone badly.
main sound operating mode it consisted in inflating the invoices of purchase of components by Apple in order to keep a part of it. He also devoted himself to receiving bribes from other businesses in exchange for preferential treatmentsteal parts, invent purchases for Apple to pay for products it would never receive, etc.
Assets worth five million dollars were intercepted, which will be returned to Apple
Moreover, he developed a rather particular plan with his two associates: Robert Gary Hansen and Don M. Baker. It’s funny, if you think about it. These two people each owned a business selling electronic components, which is also known to have done business with Apple in the past, so they there seemed to be no reason to suspect
What Prasad did was send a series of components to Baker’s warehouse, which intercepted the shipment, repackaged it, sent it back to Apple, and issued an invoice. basically you they were selling Apple the same product over and over againwhich had also always belonged to those of Cupertino.
Eventually, They created a front company so they could move all the money that they had earned thanks to this, launder it and, incidentally, deduct a significant part of their taxes. As a ploy it’s not bad, but obviously they got caught.
I’m not sure what this man and his accomplices expected to happen. Generally, anyone who commits a crime does so thinking they won’t get caught. But that’s ridiculous. Did you really expect to be able to inflate bills worth 20 million dollars and that no one would notice? At any rate, his sentence is up to 25 years in prison. In his head, it was spectacular.
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