Sridharan Nair is making the same mistakes and falling into the same trap like PwC's ex Chairman, Johan Raslan : false and misleading statements in written submissions made to the Kuala Lumpur High Court swept under the carpet.

On the 9th January 2013, the Plaintiffs' Solicitors wrote to the Defendants Solicitors, Zul Rafique & Partners, alleging that Rabindra Nathan of Shearn Delamore, counsel for PwC Malaysia, made manifestly misleading statements in his written submissions. This letter was copied to the Kuala Lumpur High Court. 

According to our PwC insider, this letter was shown to both Faiz Azmi and Sridharan Nair.

Now, these are very serious allegations. It is very serious for a lawyer  to be accused of making misleading statements, which in plain English can be termed as false statements, in written submissions.

Our PwC insider, and we the Group of Six, are very surprised that both Faiz Azmi and Sridharan Nair are not interested in ensuring that Rabindra Nathan denies the allegations made against him in the letter from the Plaintiffs' solicitors.

Instead, what we find is that Sridharan Nair is making the exact same mistake that Johan Raslan made, when the erstwhile Executive Chairman of PwC began making irrelevant tweets in his personal twitter account in an attempt to paint a patina of normalcy on matters, when the allegations of misconduct were coming hard and fast against him and his firm from this blog and elsewhere.

We all know how that worked out for Johan Raslan.

First tweet in three months comes the day after the last update on this blog

According to our PwC insider, there was a follow up letter to PWC's solicitors dated 6th February 2013, which was once again copied to the Kuala Lumpur High Court, and even though these letters question the integrity of Sridharan Nair's firm, he seems to be happy to sweep the allegations under the carpet.

Why hasn't Sridharan Nair instructed his firms counsel, Rabindra Nathan, to deny that he has made manifestly misleading statements and to immediately refute the allegations and accusations in the 9th January and 6th February 2013 letters?

The only reason, can be that these allegations are true.

There is another big problem for Sridharan Nair and Faiz Azmi to address. On the 5th December 2012, the Kuala Lumpur High Court threw out the evidence given by PwC Partner, Lee Geok Ling. PwC's counsel Rabindra Nathan then stood up to say that he had two other witnesses, under Section 90(A) of the Evidence Act, to reintroduce the documents and was going to inform the Court of the two witnesses on the next day.

On the 6th December 2012, PwC's counsel Rabindra Nathan does not show up in court, instead a Legal Assistant from Zul Rafique & Partners informs the Court that PwC is not calling anymore witnesses for their defence. According to our PwC insider, one of the two witnesses was Dato Ramesh Rajaratnam.

Both Sridharan Nair and Faiz Azmi must answer the following questions:

1. Who from PwC gave instructions to Rabindra Nathan to stand up and inform the Court about the two other witnesses?

2. Who in PwC subsequently made the decision not to allow the two witnesses (including Dato Ramesh Rajaratnam) to take the witness stand? 

We, the Group of Six, demand that both Faiz Azmi and Sridharan Nair address these important issues instead of spending their time tweeting about Li Na and Liverpool.

Shearn Delamores Rabindra Nathan hits below the belt again.

Chin Kwai Fatt.
During cross examination, he said that PwC Malaysia did not have a system, to record the receipt of and to track, client's documents. 

On 22nd January 2013, PwC Malaysia lost its leave application at the Federal Court to strike out the second plaintiff. The court's decision was unanimous.

The case is ongoing at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

According to our PwC insider, PwC counsel Rabindra Nathan in his submissions refers to a 27th July e-mail which was among 11 documents ruled inadmissible by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on 5th December, 2012.

Three very important witnesses (including Datuk Ramesh Rajaratnam and Yeap Kok Hu) were not called by PwC Malaysia. All three were ex-Executive Directors of PwC Malaysia.

The three of them were ready to give evidence if they were allowed to speak the truth. The three witnesses now reside and work in Kuala Lumpur, and there is no reason why PwC Malaysia did not call them as witnesses as they had personal knowledge as to what happened to the intellectual property which was valued at RM 75 million by PwC Malaysia.

PwC Malaysia's track record of misdeeds in this ongoing case :

i. The safe story, of the documents that were found the day before - read the story here

ii. Concealing documents before trial started -

iii. Forced to give discovery after plaintiffs knew of these documents - read that story here

iv. Go on to fabricate documents which were eventually ruled inadmissible by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on 5th December, 2012 - and that story can be read here.


Rabindra Nathan would stoop so low as to refer to an non existent e-mail dated 27th July in submissions knowing very well that if the ex-Executive Directors were allowed to give evidence at the trial, they would have confirmed that this e-mail was fabricated.

An explosive e-mail exchange between two PwC Directors is now in our possession. this e-mail is at the end of November 2012, about a week before Lee Geok Ling took the stand. This e-mail will be published in the upcoming book once the trial is completed.

The gist of the e-mail is as follows.

"Why on earth is Lee Geok Ling taking the stand, when we don't know where these documents came from?"

True enough, Lee Geok Ling in his evidence said that these documents could have been manipulated. If Lee Geok Ling was sure that these documents were genuine and not fabricated, there is absolutely no reason for him to say that these documents could have been manipulated.

PwC Malaysia's application to admit documents under Section 90 (A) of the Evidence Act was rejected by the Kuala Lumpur High Court

On the 5th of December 2012, the Kuala Lumpur High Court made a finding that :

i) no evidence that these documents came from the system (PwC Servers)

ii) no evidence that these documents are still in the system (PwC Servers).

This was after PwC Partner, Lee Geok Ling, told the court during cross examination that :

i) he did not generate the documents from the system (PwC Servers)

ii) these documents (including purported emails) could have been manipulated.

Strangely, PwC's counsel did not re-examine Mr Lee Geok Ling after cross examination.

According to our PwC Insider, during the court room proceedings the Plaintiffs' contention was that these documents were fabricated.

Interestingly, PwC did not make available any Server reports or logs as evidence that these "documents" were or are still in the system (PwC Servers).

Faiz Azmi and Sridharan Nair should read the entire transcripts of the 5th of December 2012 in detail because what happened was under your watch and the buck stops with the both of you.

We the Group of 6 are only doing this for a better Malaysia, and PwC being the largest Accounting Firm in Malaysia can do much better than this.