Taiwanese-owned plastic supplier Kaedar Electronics Co. announced last week that an unnamed executive in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, had been suspended and investigated for alleged kickbacks to Apple Inc.

Kaedar makes plastic casings for electronic products and has been supplying packaging containers for iPod since 2005.

According to Kaedar's parent company Pegatron Corp., Kaedar paid kickbacks to a third party in order to gain business from Apple prior to its acquisition by Pegatron in late 2008.