Flipkart delivery agent steals 12 iPhones worth over Rs 5 lakh from employer

A Chennai-based Flipkart delivery agent has been arrested for stealing a number of iPhones from his employer, in a scheme he carried out for over a month before being caught.

B Naveen (21), acquired a number of iPhone fakes, and set his plan into action. According to the New Indian Express, his idea was to place fake orders for iPhones in the Washermenpet area, where he was the foremost delivery agent. Upon receiving the iPhones, Naveen would swap them for the fakes in his possession and return them to the company, claiming the non-existent customers had returned them seeing as they were being cheated. Naveen managed to get a hold of 12 iPhones this way, before he slipped up.

Naveen’s employer eventually noticed a disconcerting pattern, with an unusually high number of dissatisfied customers returning fake products in the Naveen’s area. Flipkart carried out an internal investigation into the matter and discovered that the phones dispatched were not the same ones being returned. Naveen was arrested the next day, July 3, based on a complaint from his employer Vetriselvam. He has since been remanded to judicial custody.

According to police, Naveen claims he stole the phones to settle debts incurred during his college days. The total value of the phones, since recovered by the police, stands at over Rs 5 lakh.