Gopu Nair allegedly diverted lucrative overseas projects to a company owned by his relatives
Gopu Nair allegedly diverted lucrative overseas projects to a company owned by his relatives
Gopu Nair, a business development executive of Sagacious Softwares, an IT firm, has allegedly duped his company of Rs 2.1 lakh by outsourcing overseas projects to a company owned by his relatives.
Swindle exposed
The swindle came to light when clients from UK and the US contacted senior officials of Sagacious Softwares for updates on the status of their project.
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Gopu Nair, an employee of Sagacious Softwares, worked under the code name Nethan Johns. |
The companies, which were not not even enlisted as clients, revealed to the officials that Rs 2.1 lakh had changed hands.
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The company's instituted an internal enquiry that exposed Gopu Nair alias Nethan Johns who has been cheating the company for five months.
Complaint filedSunil Muniraju, MD of Sagacious Softwares, has filed a complaint against Nair with Koramangala police.
The complaint mentions that Nair, who was working with the company for the past nine months, and was responsible for liaising with overseas clients about IT-related projects.
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Nair allegedly directed business deals to a company Crossbones and asked clients to deposit the payment in Crossbones Marketing Pvt Ltd account as there was some problem with the Sagacious Softwares account.
Said Muniraju, "Crossbones got registered in May 2005.
It is jointly owned by Kaveri Adiga and Shiva Kumar Prabhakar. Prabhakar is in fact a close relative of Nair." Nair remains absconding.
