Tesla nabs ‘saboteur’

A HIGHLY placed member of Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has reportedly been caught sabotaging productionline computer code, leaking secret data to “unknown third parties” – and possibly causing fires.

In an email sent to Tesla employees on June 17, Mr Musk claimed he had identified a saboteur embedded within Tesla.

“I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. The full extent of his actions are not yet clear,” he wrote.