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Taiwan says four employees of Apple supplier Foxconn arrested in China

Workers reportedly arrested in Zhengzhou for equivalent of breach of trust.

Taipei, Taiwan – Four Taiwanese employees of Apple supplier Foxconn have been detained in China since January, Taiwan’s national news agency has reported.

The workers were detained in Zhengzhou, the home of Foxconn’s largest iPhone factory, by the local public security bureau for the equivalent of “breach of trust”, Central News Agency (CNA) reported Thursday, citing the Taiwanese government.

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) cited Foxconn as stating that its employees had done nothing to harm the company’s interests and that it could not rule out corruption and abuse of power by a small number of police officers, CNA said.

The MAC told the Reuters and AFP news agencies that the case was “quite strange” and had “severely damaged business confidence”.