Wednesday November 2, 2022 1:00 p.m. PDT by

Former Apple worker Dhirendra Prasad this week pled blameworthy to conspiracy to perpetrate fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States aft stealing much than $17 million from Apple done message and ligament fraud schemes.

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According to the Northern California District Attorney's office, Prasad worked for a ten-year play betwixt 2008 and 2018. He was successful the Global Service Supply Chain department, buying parts and services for Apple from vendors.

Starting successful 2011, Prasad began accepting kickbacks, inflating invoices, and stealing parts, which resulted successful Apple paying for items and services that it did not receive. Prasad worked with 2 Apple vendors, Robert Gary Hansen and Don M. Baker, to bargain money.

In 2013, for example, Prasad had motherboards shipped from Apple's inventory to Baker's company, CTrends. Baker had the components from the motherboards harvested, with Prasad arranging acquisition orders for the harvested components truthful that Apple paid for parts it already owned. The 2 divided the funds from the arrangement.

In 2016, Prasad had components shipped from Apple to Hansen's business, Quality Electronics Distributors, Inc. Hansen intercepted the components, enactment past successful caller packaging, shipped them backmost to Apple's warehouse, and charged Apple for it done Prasad.

Prasad besides funneled illicit payments from Hansen to his creditors, and helium besides created a ammunition institution to nonstop sham invoices to CTrends to fell illicit payments and to let Baker to assertion hundreds of thousands of dollars of unjustified taxation deductions.

Prasad could walk up to 25 years successful situation aft helium is sentenced, with the proceeding acceptable to instrumentality spot successful March 2023. He besides indispensable forfeit $5 cardinal successful assets that helium gained from the schemes.

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