I am an attorney from India and worked with General Electric in New Delhi in 2010.
I have made a complaint that GE employees engaged in criminal conduct amounting to obstruction of justice under US federal statute and tampered with evidence about events that occurred in February 2009. These facts and this evidence are relevant to the cases filed by GE investors in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
I had informed GE lawyers and ombudsman about my complaint in 2010. The matter was covered up. I thereafter brought the complaint to the attention of the United States SEC and the United States Department of Justice. In 2011, I also brought my complaint to the attention of the Plaintiffs attorneys. I was contacted by Berman DeValerio and I shared detailed facts and documents with them that substantiated my complaint. I made GE, the SEC and the DOJ aware of my communications with Berman DeValerio. I have also recently brought my complaint to the attention of the attorneys representing GE before your Court. Further I have contacted the United States Embassy in New Delhi, the US Attorney General and also the US Legal Attache (from the FBI) in New Delhi.
I face a threat to life on account of this complaint and other complaints that are mentioned below.
In 2010, I worked for GE as Legal Counsel for GE Transportation’s business activities in India. I was directly reporting to Ms. Tara Plimpton, General Counsel for GE Transportation.
I complained that material information regarding GE’s failed bid for a multi-billion dollar tender for an Indian Railways project for manufacture and sale of diesel locomotives was not disclosed to GE investors in February 2009. This information was capable of influencing share-prices and thus relevant to the shareholder lawsuits filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. I further complained that once these lawsuits were filed in 2009, GE employees tampered with the evidence establishing knowledge of this failed bid by top GE officers including Mr. Jeffrey Immelt, Mr. John Rice and Mr. Lorenzo Simonelli. I accidently found out information about events of February 2009 even though I joined GE in April 2010. I mentioned the information I thus acquired to a colleague without realising its significance. This started a process of harassment and retaliation against me by the employees in the New Delhi office who were involved in concealing evidence and creating a misleading record. I ended up raising a compliance concern to the GE General Counsel and Ombudsman in September 2010 that this might involve a securities fraud. (At that time I had no knowledge about the cases filed against GE in 2009. I found out about these cases only in April 2011.) GE retaliated against me and terminated my services. It then carried out a compliance investigation in which Gibson Dunn was involved. However, my complaint was not investigated by GE and Gibson Dunn and the matter was covered up. GE declared its investigation over at the beginning of February 2011. I subsequently responded to GE in writing in April 2011 pointing out that the matter was being covered up and there was sufficient basis for my complaint. It was at this time that I found out about the lawsuits filed by GE investors after February 2009 and I only then understood the full significance of my complaint. I pointed out to GE that evidence showed that offences amounting to obstruction of justice might have been committed. Tampering of evidence, asking employees to lie, suppression/ destruction of evidence and creation of a misleading record to influence a United States Federal Court proceeding would amount to US federal offences and obstruction of justice under US federal statutes.
Among other evidence of what happened around GE’s failed bid in February 2009, I have seen an email sent by GE Transportation employee Mr. Brett Begole to Mr. John Rice and Mr. Karan Bhatia (another GE lawyer) in February 2009 suggesting that a news report from February 2009 that had hinted at GE’s difficulties with the bid be either allowed to die a natural death or that senior Government of India officials (Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Mr. Ronen Sen, the then Indian Ambassador in Washington) be spoken to. This email was shown to me by Mr. Jeffrey Eglash in New Delhi in late 2010 when he met me during a compliance investigation. This email is suggestive of corruption and demonstrates why GE officers, attorneys and employees might have wanted to prevent their documentary record pertaining to the failed February 2009 bid from being scrutinized by a United States Federal Court.
I made complaints about other compliance violations as well, but none of these was properly investigated and matters were covered up. I believe that the principal reason for not investigating these other complaints was to avoid the truth about the evidence from February 2009 coming to light as at that time GE was arguing its Motion to Dismiss the investor law-suits filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
I complained that a customer certificate from Kazakhstan Railways was altered by GE employees and then submitted by GE to the Government of India as part of its request for qualification for an Indian Railways locomotive tender in July 2010. Such alteration would constitute forgery rendering the guilty GE employees liable to criminal prosecution and GE liable to disqualification and blacklisting. This would amount to government procurement fraud as well as a federal offence of forging a government document.
I complained that GE was paying bribes to Indian government officials through a third party contractor called Aartech Consultants. This would amount to US federal offences under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
I complained that GE had hired as consultant, a former Government official and advisor, Vinod Sharma and this constituted a violation of the tender documents and amounted to a corrupt practice as defined in the tender documents.
I complained of other corrupt contact between GE employees and Indian officials for the purposes of these tender bids. GE employees and attorneys based in the US were aware of and were party to such corrupt contact.
I complained of harassment, retaliation, and intimidation at GE and that I was drugged while I was still at GE. I complained of violation of whistle-blower protection laws.
GE’s US attorneys and Gibson Dunn attorneys used the pretence of an internal GE investigation to corruptly cover up the various illegalities listed before. Such cover-up in itself amounts to independent and separate offences under US federal law and Indian municipal law.
I was threatened by Mr. Jeffrey Eglash during a phone conversation in January 2011. Mr. Eglash attempted to pressurize me into giving up my complaints.
I have complained that I was being drugged and attempts were made to poison me even between September 2010 and February 2011 while GE’s internal investigation was on.
I have complained that since February 2011 until the present, I have been drugged on numerous occasions and attempts have been made to poison me. I have been hounded and terrorized. I have received various threats from other Indian lawyers and from doctors whom I consulted when I suspected that I was being drugged/ poisoned. I have been gang-stalked. My house has been damaged and rigged to facilitate introduction of poisonous gases, toxins and chemicals. The power supply to my house was tampered with in order to damage appliances. My car brakes and AC were tampered with and car exhaust and chemicals were introduced into my car. My house has been entered into. My belongings, clothes and bedding were sprayed with chemicals/ pesticides. I have smelt nitrous oxide in my house. My phones are being hacked. My laptops were destroyed. Bugs were planted in my home. The air-conditioner in my house was tampered with. I was subjected nightly to dogs barking and howling outside my house for hours at a stretch. My car has been followed by thugs. I have been followed by thugs to the gym. Thugs have been sent to my house to intimidate me. Gangs on motorcycles have been made to circle my house to intimidate me. The local police has been corrupted and pressurized to prevent them from coming to my assistance. The police was used to illegally assault me while I was at the police headquarters asking for protection and then later drug me. I have been completely isolated as “friends”, family and neighbours have been recruited to harm me. My family has been blackmailed into denying me support and into participating in intimidation and harm using a domestic violence criminal complaint filed against them and a child custody dispute. I have been smeared as part of the campaign against me.
I tried to protect myself by withdrawing all my complaints hoping that I would be left alone. But that was not the case. Attempts were made to drug me, intimidate me and harm me even thereafter. I got the impression then that I was in even greater danger.
It is quite evident from the scale and nature of the operation against me that there is a grave threat to my life and that powerful persons at GE, including GE Officers and GE lawyers and Gibson lawyers have ordered that I be murdered/ eliminated. The powerful persons who are caught up in my complaints and who stand to lose from the truth being established include the following:
Mr. Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman -General Electric
Mr. John Rice, Vice Chairman -General Electric
Mr. John Flannery, General Electric
Mr. Brackett Denniston, General Counsel – General Electric
Mr. Alex Dimitrief , Vice President, General Electric
Mr. Jeffrey Eglash, Senior Counsel, General Electric
Mr. Karan Bhatia, Senior Counsel- General Electric
Mr. Lorenzo Simonelli, GE Transportation
Ms. Tara Plimpton, GE Transportation
Ms. James Winget, GE Transportation
Mr. Pratyush (Prat) Kumar, General Electric
Mr. Ashfaq (Ash) Nainar – General Electric
Mr. F Joseph Warin, Gibson Dunn
Mr. John Chesley, Gibson Dunn
I have appealed to the United States Government, the FBI and other US law enforcement agencies to protect me as a whistle-blower and a witness to and victim of crime sponsored and ordered by US Citizens living in the United States. I believe the threat to my life emanates from the persons I have named above and that they have ordered my murder/ elimination. I have made several complaints against these persons accusing them of United States federal criminal offences (and of offences under Indian municipal law) which if investigated and prosecuted would not only cost these persons their jobs, their reputations and careers but would also result in criminal convictions and prison sentences. The attorneys on this list would be disbarred.
