Paul Devine, an Apple tellurian supply manager, on Monday pleaded not guilty in a California justice to charges he supposed kickbacks from Asian companies.
Taiwan"s Pegatron, the production section of netbook Personal Computer colonize Asustek, pronounced on Tuesday it was questioning a box involving Apple and Kaedar, one of the Asian suppliers declared in the kickback charges.
Singapore"s JLJ Holdings, that owns Jin Li Mold Manufacturing, duration pronounced it was additionally seeking in to the have a difference and reliable a former Jin Li worker was declared in the complaint along with Devine.
Shares in the small-cap, precision-molding organisation tumbled about eleven percent.
"We are questioning the box right away and feel contemptible about this," pronounced Jonathan Chang, a emissary orator at Pegatron, that invested $24 million to take Kaedar in 2008.
Pegatron was spun off progressing this year to equivocate any dispute of seductiveness in Asustek"s main business. Kaedar especially creates plastics cases for products such as iPhones and iPods but does not supply to Apple directly.
South Korean earphone and headset builder Cresyn pronounced on Tuesday it had not since any crude commissions to Devine.
"Devine approached us initial and offering to give us commercial operation consulting to assistance allege in to the U.S. market," pronounced an central at Cresyn, that reserve earphones for Apple"s iPod digital song players.
The central declined to be declared due to the attraction of the issue. He pronounced the organisation initial met Devine in early 2006 during supply talks with Apple and he due consulting services later.
"We supposed his suggest and perceived ubiquitous report about U.S. markets, and in lapse we offering him a small consulting fee. But this was formed on a authorised stipulate we done with him in 2007," the central said.
Apple declared Singapore"s Glocom/Lateral Solutions and Fastening Technologies, as well as Taiwan"s Nishoku Technology as the alternative Asian companies involved.
INVESTIGATION
Devine was charged in a U.S. sovereign grand jury complaint last week with twenty-three counts of handle fraud, income laundering, swindling and usurpation kickbacks, justice papers showed.
Devine is indicted of utilizing his on all sides at Apple to acquire trusted report that he common with Apple suppliers to assistance them come to terms auspicious contracts with the firm.
In a apart polite lawsuit, Apple indicted Devine of reception some-more than $1 million in payments and bribes over multiform years from companies that granted iPhone and iPod accessories.
Singapore"s JLJ reliable that Andrew Ang, who is declared in the complaint along with Devine, was a former worker of Jin Li Mold. Ang left the association on May 28, 2009, the association said.
"The association is now seeking authorised recommendation and actively seeking in to the matter, and will have serve suitable announcements as and when there are element developments on this matter," JLJ pronounced in a statement.
As at the time of the announcement, the Singaporean association pronounced it was not wakeful of any inauspicious stroke on the Group"s commercial operation with Apple Inc, it added.
Devine is indicted by sovereign authorities of usurpation kickbacks from 6 Asian firms.
(Additional stating by Charmian Kok in Singapore)
(Editing by Jonathan Hopfner and Dhara Ranasinghe)
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