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Pegatron will formally merge with Kaisheng on January 15, but Kaisheng suddenly announced on the 31st that the position of general manager Zhuang Yuzhi will be adjusted, and the chief financial officer Zhang Zhaoping, senior deputy general manager, will temporarily act as the agent. The industry reported that Zhuang Yuzhi was taken away by the Chinese police for investigation, which was related to financial abuses. Kaisheng’s parent company Heshuo declined to comment on the adjustment of Zhuang Yuzhi’s position and whether he was taken away.
In the past two or three years, Kaisheng has suffered a lot in order to transform and undertake the iPhone metal case. However, under the control of Kaisheng Chairman Cheng Jianzhong and Pegatron Chairman Tong Zixian in 2020, Kaisheng changed to undertake to encircle the iPhone. The metal circle of the screen and the combination of the OLED screen and the metal circle to break through, the monthly revenue has also tripled. In August, the revenue was 4.063 billion yuan, and it has jumped to 12 billion yuan in October and 17.3 billion yuan in November. In addition, Kaisheng’s share of Apple’s Macbook has also increased rapidly from the second half of this year. It is expected to further increase in 2021 and become the second largest supplier after Hongzhun.
In order to give Kaisheng more resources to operate the newly-acquired iPhone case and screen sub-module assembly business, and to allow the parent company Pegatron to have more development opportunities in the increasingly vigorous electric vehicle business, Pegatron will Kaisheng merged with Kaisheng on January 15, but on the 31st, Kaisheng was shocked to change the general manager, Zhuang Yuzhi, will be temporarily replaced by Chief Financial Officer Zhang Zhaoping.
According to the industry, Zhuang Yuzhi was taken away by the Chinese police for investigation on the 30th as the main reason for the temporary substitution of the general manager position. Industry sources revealed that Zhuang Yuzhi was investigated for personal ethics and major disciplinary issues. It was found that even when the capacity utilization rate of Kaisheng was at its lowest point, Zhuang Yuzhi still insisted on outsourcing part of the manufacturing process to specific contractors at a relatively high price, which attracted the attention of the auditing unit and found that Zhuang Yuzhi and some specific contractors Businesses may have money transactions that are not in compliance with the regulations, which may involve major economic crimes, and the police will therefore intervene in the investigation.
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