Hoatian Sun and Pengfei Xue are on their way to prison after the Justice Department said their iPhone repair scheme cost the tech giant millions in losses.

The court also sentences Haotian Sun and his co-conspirator to more than four years in prison for carrying out the scheme, which involved over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones.

Two men involved in an elaborate scheme duping Apple into replacing about 6,000 counterfeit iPhones with genuine iPhones were sentenced to prison this week, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Duo to cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle Two fraudsters will spend nearly five years behind bars each and pay a combined $1.5 million for bilking Apple out of millions of dollars worth of iPhones.