Apple manager charged with taking bribes and kickbacks

The Apple manager responsible for global supply has been charged in California with taking kickbacks. Paul Shin Devine has been accused by federal authorities of accepting kickbacks from six Asian companies. In addition to this Devine faces a civil suit filed by Cupertino, the California-based Apple, which accuses him of accepting more than $1 million in payments and bribes over a number of years.

Electronics component suppliers that allegedly paid the kickbacks to gain business from Apple have declined to comment on the allegations.

"I can't comment on anything right now," said Andric Ng, CEO of Singapore's Jin Li Mould Manufacturing, which was one of the companies named in papers filed last week with the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.

China's Kaeder Electronics declined to comment and Paul Kim, an employee of South Korea's Cresyn, said there were no staff in the company's Seoul office able to answer questions regarding the allegations.