BenQ Mobile factory in Kamp-Lintfort closed. Representatives of the labour union IG Metall bid farewell to the last 165 workers with flowers. The demise of BenQ Mobile caused 3,000 employees to lose their jobs. The company's assets were auctioned off in Hamburg and at eBay in March 2007 and in June. The losses of 2005 and 2006 wiped out all profits BenQ had made since 1999. Aftermath Martin Prager launched a 26-million-euro lawsuit against its former parent BenQ in August 2007 on top of 80 million euros already claimed. The lawsuit was partly for BenQ bonus payments promised to BenQ Mobile employees in Germany that were paid by the BenQ Mobile subsidiary. In July 2008, Prager threatened a multi-million euro lawsuit against Siemens after claiming irregularities were found in the acquisition and that BenQ Mobile was already insolvent as early as May 2006 - a claim first reported by German newspaper Die Welt. A settlement between Prager and Siemens was reached in November 2008. Former BenQ CEO K. Y. Lee, along with several executives including Eric Yu and Sheaffer Lee, were cleared of their insider trading, embezzlement and forgery charges in August 2009 after a two-year trial. After the company closed, its former parent company, BenQ, launched five new phones (produced in Asia) under the BenQ-Siemens brand during 2007 (the license still ran for another four years). These include the A53 (Taiwan only), E52, C31, C32 and SF71 – briefly continuing the lifespan of the BenQ-Siemens brand. In August 2007, BenQ announced that it would resume production of mobile devices using its own "BenQ" brand, coming with the announcements of the BenQ E72, M7 and T51 models that would initially launch in Taiwan. BenQ started making Android devices from 2013. List of mobile phones BenQ-Siemens A38 BenQ-Siemens A58 (cancelled) BenQ-Siemens AL26/AL26 Hello Kitty! BenQ-Siemens C26 (not presented) BenQ-Siemens C31 (Low-Entry version of BenQ-Siemens E81) BenQ-Siemens C52 (not presented) BenQ-Siemens C81 (Siemens C75 Successors) BenQ-Siemens CF61 (MIA Special Edition called EF61) BenQ-Siemens CL61 (not presented) BenQ-Siemens CL71 Slides BenQ-Siemens E52 (Siemens ST55/60 Successors) BenQ-Siemens E61 Q-Fi BenQ-Siemens E71 (Siemens ME75 Successors, others called BenQ-Siemens E80) BenQ-Siemens EL71 BenQ-Siemens EF71 BenQ-Siemens EF51 Q-Fi (BenQ Z2 Successors) BenQ-Siemens EF61 MIA Special Edition, Blue Whisper Color (regular version is called BenQ-Siemens CF61) BenQ-Siemens E80 (prototype, public model in BenQ-Siemens E71) BenQ-Siemens E81 (Asia market's only) BenQ-Siemens EF81 (Siemens SLV140) BenQ-Siemens EF82 (not presented, BenQ-Siemens