Four employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances, as reported by Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council. The employees were detained in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, where a major Foxconn plant assembles Apple’s iPhones, on suspicion of breach of trust.
The council described the situation as unusual and suggested a possible connection to corruption and abuse of power by some Chinese security officials. Foxconn declined to provide any comments on the matter, while the council mentioned that the company claimed no losses had been incurred and that the detained employees had not acted against the company’s interests.
