Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn under “quite strange” circumstances.
Police in Zhengzhou city of Henan province held the factory workers on an offence equivalent to Taiwan’s “crime of breach of trust”, the island’s mainland affairs council said.
The council confirmed all four employees were Taiwanese and claimed that the “circumstances of the case are quite strange”.
The workers have been detained since January, Taiwanese media reported.
The council quoted Foxconn as saying that “the four employees did not harm the company’s interests”.
“This has seriously damaged the confidence of companies. We call on relevant departments on the other side of the Taiwan Strait to investigate and deal with it as soon as possible,” it said.
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