A former assistant operations manager of a company worked with a woman to misappropriate more than 25,000 defective iPhones from the firm, causing a loss of over US$5 million (S$6.76 million). At the time of the offences, Lim Jen Hee’s former employer, Pegatron Service...
Ng, then 40, was sentenced to nine years’ jail in 2021 after she pleaded guilty to offences including two counts of criminal breach of trust.Lim was in charge of the production team at Pegatron when he was working for the company. Meanwhile, Ng was in charge of its logistics material department.
Court documents stated that in late 2017, Lim found a buyer in Malaysia who was willing to buy the devices. As part of the scheme, Ng told one of her then subordinates to charge the battery of each iPhone she received from Pegatron’s repair team. The unsuspecting woman was also told to set aside any of the devices which could be powered up, and place them in a metal cabinet in the logistics office.
Ng would then arrange for a courier company to collect the boxes of iPhones. She would personally endorse the delivery orders to get past the security checks at the Pegatron warehouse.Ng would then would raise a closure request to Apple for the cases to be closed manually. This was done in a bid to prevent Pegatron or Apple from detecting the unauthorised losses of the iPhones.