Former exec takes PwC India to court for alleged tax evasion, fudging a/cs

Former CFO Sarvesh Mathur alleges malpractice at global consultancy firm's India unit

Global consultancy firm PriceWaterHouseCoopers’ India unit has been taken to court by a former executive who has alleged 'falsification of accounts, evasion of income tax, and violations of various other statues'. The complainant in the petition filed to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gurgaon, is Sarvesh Mathur, who was the firm’s India chief financial officer from March 2008 to December 2011.

Mathur’s petition has listed as respondents PwC India’s former chairman Deepak Kapoor and current chairman Shyamal Mukherjee, among others, and has filed for defamation, criminal intimidation, and cheating.

"Wilful falsification of accounts, on multiple occasions, by the accused, which also