China says Foxconn employees probed for bribery, embezzlement

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s government said on Friday that employees of Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, are being investigated for suspected taking of bribes and embezzlement, after Taiwan reported their detention.

Taiwan’s government said this week that four Foxconn employees had been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances in Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple’s iPhones, on suspicion of the equivalent of “breach of trust.”