Wheel maker Dicastal's Michigan plant raided by FBI

The FBI raided western Michigan wheel manufacturing outfit Dicastal North America on Monday. The Chinese-owned manufacturer is a major supplier of automotive wheels and has been operating in Greenville, Mich., since 2015, the local Daily News newspaper reported.

The FBI has not released any information about the raid apart from acknowledging that it was executing a warrant at the company's Michigan location. The documents relating to the warrant are sealed, according to FBI Public Affairs Officer Mara Schneider.

According to the Detroit Free Press, agents sent employees home and seized office computers.

Dicastal manufactures aluminum alloy wheels for Ford, GM, Stellantis, Honda, Toyota and Nissan. It was GM's Supplier of the Year in 2019.

TV station WZZM-13 spoke with a couple of former Dicastal employees, who offered only vague indications of what might be going on. Their comments were so generic they could be chalked up to typical complaints that line workers might have, and could have nothing to do with the FBI raid. The TV station said the former workers were not surprised to hear the FBI had raided the business.

"There’s thousands of people between plant one and plant two," a former employee who did not want to be identified told the station. "It’d suck if they lost their jobs, but at the same the time, they [Dicastal] shouldn’t get away with doing what they’re doing."