Mumbai Police has reportedly lodged an FIR towards Zilingo co-founder Dhruv Kapoor and ex-COO Aadi Vaidya on the grievance of the corporate’s co-founder and former CEO Ankiti Bose. Bose filed a legal grievance towards the duo following which the native police filed an FIR, stated stories. Bose introduced forth accusations of dishonest, legal intimidation, conspiracy, and harassment. She had been dismissed from her management place in Could 2022 by the Singapore-based B2B vogue startup, following allegations of economic impropriety.
As per stories, Bose, in her formal grievance, asserted that Kapoor and Vaidya had deceived her and the corporate’s traders to safe monetary beneficial properties, compelling her to give up her shares and enterprise underneath false pretences. Bose maintained that this misconduct persevered from April 2020 till 2022. Bose claimed that Aadi Vaidya, in his capability because the chief working officer, engaged in misconduct by falsely assigning loss-making offers to her and providing commerce credit score to numerous events underneath her identify.
“He then used these offers to threaten me by falsely implicating me to traders, even if all operational dealings have been carried out by him in my earlier firm. I’ve been threatened, deceived, and had errors attributed to me to ensure that Vaidya to fraudulently purchase my shares, that are valued at a number of crores,” Bose talked about in her grievance. She additionally accused Kapoor and Vaidya of being ‘sneaky and shady’ by hiding numerous company-related information and knowledge.
Nonetheless, Dhruv Kapoor and Aadi Vaidya refuted Bose’s claims terming the allegations ‘baseless’ and ‘malicious’. Responding to the allegations, Dhruv Kapoor stated, “Ankiti Bose’s allegations towards me are utterly baseless, unfaithful, and malicious. A radical investigation has already confirmed her wrongdoing based mostly on which she was terminated from the corporate. This seems to be nothing however retaliatory habits. All through my tenure at Zilingo, I upheld my integrity by aiding the board’s inquiry into the CEO’s misconduct whereas fostering skilled relationships and striving to construct moral merchandise.”
Aadi Vaidya additionally made comparable assertion. “The allegations, as per media stories, made towards me by Ms. Ankiti Bose are utterly baseless and unfaithful. This looks like nothing however a transparent afterthought finished with a malicious intention to hurt my repute and harass me,” stated Vaidya.
Zilingo had enlisted Kroll and Deloitte for a forensic audit to probe the complaints levelled towards Bose. Kapoor and Vaidya remained unresponsive to messages. The legislation agency Singhania & Co, representing Bose, verified this plan of action. Bose co-founded Zilingo with Kapoor in 2015. Earlier than her removing as CEO, she was suspended by the board pending an investigation by an unbiased forensics agency into the purported monetary irregularities.
