Two Chinese nationals living in Maryland have been sentenced for defrauding Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday.
Sun Haotian, 34, of Baltimore, was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was ordered to pay Apple over $1.07 million in restitution and a forfeiture money judgment of $53,610.
Xue Pengfei, 34, of Germantown, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $397,800 in restitution to Apple and a forfeiture money judgment of $19,890.
According to court documents, the men and their co-conspirators devised a scheme to exploit Apple’s one-year warranty policy for new phones….