An Apple manager has been charged for receiving more than 1 million U.S. dollars in kickbacks from six companies in Asia that serve as suppliers to the company, according to Wall Street Journal on Monday.

(Kazan, August 16, Tatar-inform). )An Apple manager has been charged for receiving more than 1 million U.S. dollars in kickbacks from six companies in Asia that serve as suppliers to the company, according to Wall Street Journal on Monday, says Xinhua.

Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager of Apple, was charged in a federal grand-jury indictment in California with offenses that include wire fraud and unlawful monetary transactions starting in 2006.

Devine supplied companies such as Cresyn Co. in South Korea and Jin Li Mould Manufacturing Ltd. in Singapore with confidential information in which he demanded payments that were small enough to avoid attention which were sent to his wife's bank accounts.

Apple also named Devine in a civil suit filed Friday in a U.S. District Court in California.

He is scheduled to make a court appearance later in Monday.