1.原文連結：
https://electrek.co/2018/11/09/tesla-fraud-embezzlement-scheme-doj/
2.原文內容：
Tesla got defrauded of almost $10 million in embezzlement scheme by a
manager, says DOJ
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that they charged a former
Tesla employee over an embezzlement scheme that might have cost the automaker
almost $10 million.
A federal grand jury issued an indictment against Salil Parulekar, a former
manager in Tesla’s Global Supply Management group, and he was charged with “
nine counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and one count
of aggravated identity theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A.”
According to the indictment, Parulekar was in charge of the relationships
with some of Tesla’s suppliers and he “allegedly used his role to initiate
a scheme wherein he diverted money owed to one Tesla supplier and caused it
to be paid to another supplier.”
The DOJ explains the scheme in more details:
“Parulekar learned in January 2017 that Tesla had terminated its supplier
relationship with Schwabische Huttenwerke Automotive GmbH (“SHW”). At the
time of the termination, SHW had only provided a limited number of sample
products, specifically, motor pumps, to Tesla. Parulekar allegedly knew the
termination meant that Tesla was withholding future payments to SHW and that
Parulekar was not authorized to contravene this decision. Notwithstanding
these facts, Parulekar redirected a series of payments intended for another
supplier, Hota Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (“Hota”), and caused them
to be paid to SHW.”
As we reported last year, Hota is a Taiwan-based manufaturer of gears and
axles who is working on the Model 3 program. The manager was apparently able
to divert payments due to Hota.
Parulekar allegedly achieved that by “falsifying invoices; creating
fraudulent accounts payable documents, such as bank account information and
wire instructions; and impersonating Hota employees.”
In 2017, Parulekar’s scheme allegedly embezzled about $9.3 million from
Tesla. He stopped working at the company last December.
If convicted, the maximum penalty for each count of wire fraud is twenty years
’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. It’s unclear at this point if Tesla
will be able to get the money back.
3.心得/評論：
還沒看到有中文媒體報導，簡單說一下DOJ(美國司法部)講的內容：
Parulekar 是Tesla 全球供應鏈的一名前經理，他已於去年12月離職
主要的工作是負責與一些供應商的關係
他在2017年1月時獲知Tesla 要終止與一家德國公司SHW 的供應商關係
在終止時，SHW 僅僅只有向Tesla 提供了一些數量有限的樣本
Parulekar 也知道終止關係意味著將來Tesla 並不會支付任何款項
並且Parulekar 也沒被授權支付款項給SHW
但Parulekar 還是轉移了一系列原先要給Hota(就是台灣的和大)的付款給SHW
這些金額大約有930萬美元
如果被指控的這些詐欺罪名都成立，最高會被關20年
目前也還不清楚Tesla 有沒有收回這筆錢
雖然已經是去年的事情了，不過對Tesla 與和大來說應該還是有一些影響
Tesla 可能影響較小，930萬美元老實說對現在的Tesla 來說並不是什麼大錢
和大可能影響會大一些，不過也不曉得這筆錢最後和大有沒有收到
但應該是有收到，畢竟這是Tesla 內部的問題
可能這幾天和大或Tesla 會說明吧 XD
(還是以前已經說明過了只是我後知後覺不知道？)