A former Apple employee has been sentenced to 3 years in jail for a $17 million fraud for which he pleaded guilty. This fortune was amassed from his position as a buyer in the company’s global supply chain, pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy and mail fraud, as well as fraud to the United States.
Dhirendra Prasad joined Apple in 2008 and ran this scheme from 2011 to 2018.along the way, using his knowledge of Apple’s fraud detection systems to avoid getting caught along the way, colluding with two vendors to inflate bills, and generally making Apple pay for products or services you never received.
As part of your sentence, the payment of those 17 million dollars has been ordered, of which 5.5 million dollars have already been obtained from the seizure of their properties. Likewise, the payment of an additional 8.1 million dollars has also been ordered, as well as 1.9 million dollars to the Internal Revenue Service. The total figure is 32.5 million dollars.
In any case, after his three years in prison, he will also face three years of probation.
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