Taiwanese Employees of Apple Supplier Detained in China

Taiwan’s government said that they had been accused of a breach of trust, but that their employer, Foxconn, had denied the company suffered any losses.

Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer that makes Apple iPhones, Taiwan said, in the latest incident involving government scrutiny of the private sector in mainland China.

The police in Zhengzhou, China, had accused each of the four Taiwanese workers of an offense comparable to Taiwan’s “crime of breach of trust,” according to a statement on Thursday from Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council.

The council described Foxconn as saying that “the company did not suffer any losses, and the four employees also did not harm the company’s interests.” The statement from the Taiwan government added that the detentions could have been the result of “corruption and abuse of power” by law enforcement officers. It was not clear what jobs the Foxconn employees performed.

Foxconn, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, plays a central role in making iPhones and other products for Apple.

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