Within three years of starting work at Apple in 2008, Dhirendra Prasad was defrauding the company, and over the next decade he scammed the Cupertino iPhone maker out of more than $17 million, federal authorities said after the 52-year-old pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Prasad, of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, California, spent most of his time at Apple in the company’s Global Service Supply Chain department, as a buyer of parts and services, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Prasad used “multiple schemes” to defraud his employer, federal officials said.
“Prasad admitted he began to defraud Apple as early as 2011 by taking kickbacks, inflating invoices, stealing parts, and causing Apple to pay for items and services never received,” the department said in a press release.
