Samsung she was accused of many illegal actions in the past, but what was revealed in an article from Vanity Fair stretches the limits of imagination. According to the article, in order to protect the company from an investigation carried out in South Korea, the employees Samsung they were able including eating the documents that a team of investigators sent by Apple wanted to take over. Everything happened in 2010 when a team of investigators, sent by Apple as part of the American process with Samsung, tried to access a factory Samsung, but was prevented by the company's security team, which denied them access.
Before the investigators could get inside, security guards approached and refused to let them through the door. A standoff ensued, and the investigators called the police, who finally got them inside after a 30-minute delay. Curious about what had been happening in the plant as they cooled their heels outside, the officials seized video from internal security cameras. What they saw was almost beyond belief. Upon getting word that investigators were outside, employees at the plant began destroying documents and switching computers, replacing the ones that were being used—and might have damaging material on them—with others.
After about 30 minutes of waiting for the police to help them enter the building, the investigators discovered that most of the important documents and information from the computers were missing. Analyzing the images of the security cameras, the investigators discovered that in the period before their entry, the employees began to change the computers that contained important documents with others that did not contain anything relevant to the investigation that the investigators were conducting in the location.
A year later, Korean newspapers reported that the government had fined Samsung for obstructing the investigation at the facility. At the time, a legal team representing Apple was in Seoul to take depositions in the Samsung case, and they read about the standoff. From what they heard, one of the Samsung employees there had even swallowed documents before the investigators were allowed in.
Moreover, the Apple lawyers present in South Korea to analyze the documents found out that some employees would have eaten important documents before they reached the hands of the investigators. Samsung was, of course, fined for obstructing the investigation, but in the end Apple failed to obtain important documents that would have helped it prove some of Samsung's illegal actions.
