SINGAPORE — A former assistant operations manager at an iPhone repair firm pocketed about S$3.1 million by teaming up with an ex-colleague to steal defective phones and sell them for S$100 to S$550 each.
The pair sold 25,501 phones and earned more than S$5.1 million over a period of about 18 months. Their illegal scheme came to light only after auditors from the manufacturer, Apple, conducted a surprise check.
However, he was convicted after a district judge found his defence unbelievable as well as “contrived and both externally and internally inconsistent”.in January 2021 after pleading guilty to one count each of criminal breach of trust as a servant and using benefits from criminal conduct.WHAT HAPPENED
As part of her job, Ng received and assigned defective iPhones to repair teams, then delivered the devices to the relevant destination.In late 2017, the pair agreed to steal the defective phones and sell them to an overseas buyer found by Lim. At all times, only Lim communicated directly with the buyer. Ng did not know who was receiving the iPhones in Malaysia.
Court documents state that Pegatron had to compensate Apple about US$5 million for the defective phones that Ng stole in batches on more than 99 occasions.Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Zhi Hao sought a sentence of between 11 and 14 years' jail, saying that Lim had played a “pivotal role” in the offences.
The man’s lawyer, Navinder Singh Nijar from Kscgp Juris LLP, disagreed and said that Lim was only a “middle man” tasked to find buyers for Ng.
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