Fired Tesla employee alleges company spied on workers, knew of drug dealing at plant

An employee fired from Tesla’s ‘Gigafactory 1’ battery plant has accused the electric-car maker of spying on its staff and failing to investigate reports that a Mexican cartel may be selling drugs inside the facility.

Karl Hansen was a security employee at Tesla’s vast ‘Gigafactory 1’ battery-making plant in Nevada. Hansen alleges that Tesla wiretapped employees’ personal phones, in a statement released through his attorney and distributed to the media.

According to the whistleblower, the technical giant failed to tell shareholders that $37 million worth of copper and other raw materials were stolen from the plant in the first half of this year.

He also insists that Tesla failed to disclose that it had received a warning from the US Drug Enforcement Administration that an employee had been selling cocaine and crystal methamphetamine from the plant for a Mexican drug cartel.

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They were probably syphoned off for one of his side projects.