Apple employee spent a decade defrauding company of $10M, DOJ says

Enlarge / Repairing an Apple iPhone. (credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance)

Under CEO Tim Cook’s watchful eye, Apple has become famous for its tightly managed supply chain. Yet even the most finely tuned machines run into problems from time to time. The case of Dhirendra Prasad appears to be one of those times. 

Prasad’s time at Apple coincided with the company’s meteoric rise. He joined in 2008, just after the iPhone was released, and spent the next decade there as a buyer in the company’s Global Service Supply Chain group, which sources repair parts from a range of vendors.

During that time, Prasad devised a scheme with two other men, Robert Gary Hansen and Don M. Baker, who owned vendors that Apple worked with, the Department of Justice says.