The saga of the suicidal Foxconn engineer, who misplaced an iPhone 4G prototype, moves on. The New York Times has reported that Sun Danyong’s family has received, a sum of money which equals $44,000-U.S., and that his girlfriend also was given a Mac laptop from Foxconn.
Foxconn has admitted to the "slight" manhandling of Danyong during a heated interrogation. They were trying to ascertain the whereabouts of the new iPhone prototype. They acknowledged that they, "became a little angry" after Danyong said he "Lost" then subsequently found the newly designed iPhones.
James Lee, the GM of Chinese operations at Foxconn maintains:
“Several times he had some products missing, then he got them back … We don’t know who took the product, but it was at his stop”
Foxconn did not go public with the scale of compensating payment to the family and girlfriend, Danyong's brother broke the story to the news outlets.
Danyong's job at Foxconn was to ship the new iPhone prototypes to Apple in the United States. As hes was transporting the 16 iPhones he had noticed, and then subsequently told Foxconn, that the unit became misplaced. It has been reported that once he was in custody of Foxconn security he was violently worked over as they rummaged through his apartment.
