The Indian man violated the confidentiality obligations by downloading files from his former company, Court finds in Singapore

A court in Singapore has found that a high -ranking Indian executive violated his confidentiality duties by downloading certain documents from his former employer's website and maintaining the files after his employment ended. The 38 -year -old Rajan Sunil Kumar was from December 9, 2019 to December 22, 2021 Hayate Partners manager of the investor relationships. Hayate Partners is a Japanese company based in Singapore.

Kumar was later sued by his former employer.

The documents were downloaded at the time when he returned from the company, some of which he had deleted.

Hayat's claim for damages is assessed at a separate hearing, reported the Straits Times on Friday.

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“This is similar to a thief that deletes the video material that grasps his act of theft, and then says that nobody can prove that he has stolen something,” the judge of the Straits Times, Dedar Singh Gill, quoted in a judgment published on March 14.

The only reason why Hayate did not have such evidence was deliberate and deliberate deletion of the applications on his devices. The files contained documents that relate to Hayat's investment strategies. Personal identification information and bank account Details of customers; Meet logs and call protocols; and personal identification information from the company's key staff. After he was ordered to hand over his electronic devices for forensic test by Hayate's experts, Rajan wiped her clean. He then argued that his former employer had no evidence that he had retained the downloaded documents that go beyond the end of his employment.

During his employment, the company did not provide him with regularly.

This became increasingly a bugbear when Rajan, who comes from India, had to submit his payslips to apply for citizenship in Singapore. Justice Gill ordered that the cache files that remain in the MacBook are deleted under the supervision of Hayate or his forensic expert and lawyers.

Justice Gill also found that Rajan had not violated the confidentiality of other downloads that were made to his Dell Work -Laptop, which was returned to the company after his employment ended.