Activists demand action against audit major PwC

A citizens' forum today demanded that the Centre terminate all its contracts awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and accused it of indulging in "forgery", which the auditing major rejected.
Activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan of the 'Citizens Whistleblowers Forum' alleged "inaction" on the part of successive governments against the firm, despite adverse findings, including by a Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Bhushan told reporters, instead of letting the law take its due course, the Centre has involved the PwC in major tasks including "in the black money probe" while the Reserve Bank of India has used its services for audit of its information systems.

"We deny the allegations made. PwC has always complied and will continue to comply with applicable laws and regulations and any suggestion to the contrary is merely speculative," PwC said in a statement, reacting to the allegations.
Justice (retd) AP Shah, RTI pioneer, Aruna Roy, former finance secretary EAS Sharma, Jagdeep Chhokar of the Association for Democratic Reforms, former navy chief Admiral Ramdas and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah are the other members of the forum.