2023-05-08 11:32:14
◀ Anchor ▶
This year, there have been a series of incidents in which the latest mobile phones were stolen from the changing rooms of Samsung Electronics’ Pyeongtaek plant.
The police caught the culprit, an employee of a supplier in his 20s.
Victims pointed out that the company was the problem.
Reporter Cha Hyun-jin covered what was going on.
◀ Report ▶
Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do.
Employees change clothes in the locker room and walk out through security.
Since three months ago, there have been 112 reports that expensive mobile phones have gone missing.
[삼성전자 협력업체 직원]
″When I leave work, I change from work clothes to my private clothes and come out, but when I tried to take my phone out of my pocket, only the phone case was left.″
The police, who launched an investigation, arrested a suspect in his 20s yesterday at an acquaintance’s house in Incheon.
Men mainly sought out the hours at which factory workers worked.
The crime was committed by rummaging through the dressing room clothes of colleagues who had taken off to change into dustproof clothes.
The space without CCTV was also abused.
A man in his 20s, who was an employee of a Samsung Electronics partner, was reported to have evaded the security checkpoint by secretly hiding a stolen cell phone in his helmet.
It is said that at the time, only the cell phones of employees were checked at the security checkpoint.
I just checked that the application that needs to be installed to prevent filming in the factory is installed.
Therefore, the suspect did not even notice the mobile phones hidden in the hard hat.
Victims point out that the problem is that the company does not even allow lockers to be placed in the locker rooms while preventing the use of mobile phones during the day for security reasons.
There are also complaints that the staff facilities of partner companies are worse.
[삼성전자 협력업체 직원]
″It’s a way of using hangers on hangers and literally just hanging real clothes. There are literally thousands of clothes and dozens of thousands of items now with your phone in your pocket.″
Samsung said, “After the theft of the locker room, some personal lockers were installed, but there were many employees of partner companies, so there was a limit to acceptance.”
The suspect was identified as stealing the latest and most expensive models and selling them to China.
Only 29 confirmed victims. The damage amounted to 46 million won.
While the police are applying for an arrest warrant, they believe there are more victims and are expanding their investigation.
This is MBC News Cha Hyun-jin.
Video coverage: Han Ji-eun / Video editing: Kim Min-ji
1683558047
#Samsung #plant #mobile #phone #thief #caught #locker #locker #room #coworkers