{"id":7386,"date":"2016-04-01T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T08:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/new-details-emerge-mahindra-fraud-case\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T08:23:37","slug":"new-details-emerge-mahindra-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diazreus.com\/es\/new-details-emerge-mahindra-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details Emerge in Mahindra Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI,\u00a0March 31, 2016 –\u00a0\/PRNewswire<\/a>\/ —\u00a0An amended complaint filed by six auto dealers provides new details as to how Indian vehicle manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra, Ltd. allegedly defrauded hundreds of U.S. dealerships out of millions of dollars for light trucks and SUVs that were never delivered.<\/p>\n

The Third Amended Complaint filed in the State Court of\u00a0Fulton County, Georgia, claims that dealers paid fees of up to\u00a0$210,000 for rights to sell the Mahindra vehicles in the U.S. between 2006 and 2010. Dealers relied on representations made by Mahindra executives that the company’s \u00abScorpio\u00bb vehicle models would be certified and available for sale in the U.S.\u00a0 By\u00a0January 2010, 347 dealers had paid more than\u00a0$65 million\u00a0in franchise fees and invested some\u00a0$160 million\u00a0to upgrade facilities for delivery of the Scorpio 2-door pickup, 4-door pickup, and SUV.<\/p>\n

\u00abThis amended pleading tracks the story that has emerged from evidence gathered in the course of discovery, including depositions of senior Mahindra executives that were taken during the first half of March near the company’s\u00a0headquarters in\u00a0Mumbai, India,\u00bb said\u00a0Brant Hadaway, lead plaintiffs’ attorney and Partner in\u00a0Miami-based Diaz, Reus & Targ.<\/p>\n

The new complaint alleges that Mahindra selected its U.S. distributor, Global Vehicles\u00a0U.S.A., Inc., despite knowing that the distributor was in poor financial condition and would need to raise operating capital from dealer franchise fees in order to fund the more than\u00a0$8.5 million\u00a0in vehicle development costs that Mahindra required it to pay under the agreement. The filing further contends that senior Mahindra executives, including Chairman and Managing Director\u00a0Anand Mahindra, Executive Director and Group President of the Automotive Sector Dr.\u00a0Pawan Goenka, and President and Chief Executive of the Automotive Sector Pravin Shah, coordinated a \u00abmaster plan\u00bb to conduct a hostile takeover of Global Vehicles, which included an intentional delay of obtaining compliance with U.S. safety and emissions regulations in order to maintain a negotiating advantage over Global Vehicles. At one point, Mahindra even secretly enlisted an executive of Goldman Sachs to pressure Global Vehicles into selling to Mahindra.\u00a0When the takeover bid failed, the complaint alleges, Mahindra invoked a controversial provision in the distributor agreement that purportedly allowed it to terminate if vehicle certification was not achieved by a certain date, thus leaving the dealers with their losses.<\/p>\n

Additional new details include allegations that Mahindra ignored warnings from its own chief engineer that the Scorpio was the not the right platform for launch in the U.S., and that the company\u00a0secretly cancelled development of the Scorpio SUV as early as 2007.<\/p>\n

\u00abFrom beginning to end, Mahindra acted in bad faith towards the dealers whose franchise fees were supposedly being used to fund development of the Scorpio vehicles,\u00bb said Hadaway. \u00abThey knew that their conduct would result in litigation with the dealers.\u00bb<\/p>\n

About Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.<\/h4>\n

Mahindra & Mahindra Limited\u00a0is an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in\u00a0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.\u00a0It is one of the largest vehicle manufacturers by production in\u00a0India\u00a0and the largest manufacturer of tractors across the world. It is a part of Mahindra Group, an Indian conglomerate.<\/p>\n

About Diaz Reus<\/h4>\n

Diaz Reus is a global legal practice focused on national and transnational parallel proceedings in the following broad areas: sovereign, trade, commerce, finance, and fraud; civil litigation and arbitration; asset identification, location, tracing, and recovery; white collar crime, regulatory, and criminal investigations and defense in matters of corruption, bribery, money laundering, FCPA, OFAC, SDNs, and the Bank Secrecy Act; and politically sensitive investigations including the recovery of U.S. immigration status and visas. Headquartered in\u00a0Miami, Florida, the firm has 15 additional offices located throughout U.S.,\u00a0Europe,\u00a0Asia-Pacific,\u00a0Middle East, and\u00a0Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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