According to The Register, the officials investigating the suicide of a Foxconn employee after the employee had lost a prototype of the next iPhone model have changed the status of the investigation to “apparent” suicide”. This could indicate that the investigators have found some evidence that the man’s plummet from a 14 story building, which was caught on tape, may not have been a suicide after all, but murder instead. This is becoming a very interesting case to watch. If you don’t know the details, hit the jump for a brief history of the incident.
[25 year-old Sun Danyong] leapt to his death from his 12th-floor apartment window a few days after he told his superiors that one of the 16 iPhone 4G prototypes which had been entrusted to him had gone missing. Both Foxconn and Apple have acknowledged Sun’s suicide.
What happened between Sun’s admission of the missing prototype and his suicide is in dispute. According to various sources, including China Radio International and VentureBeat, Sun was allegedly beaten during a search of his apartment by Foxconn security personnel. A few hours later, Sun committed suicide – an act that was videotaped by security cameras.
No admission of a search or beating has been made by Foxconn, but they have now suspended without pay a security official identified only by his surname, Gu. The case remains murky.
[The Register]img[Socially Minded]
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