Hailer said Raveendran sent him a plane ticket to Dubai two days before the former was set to testify about Raveedran’s efforts to regain control of parts of the Byju’s empire that a court-authorised trustee has taken over. A copy of the $10,000 ticket was shown in the Delaware court Thursday.
The controversial founder also promised a job with a $500,000 salary if Hailer would come to Dubai and start working, Hailer told US Bankruptcy Judge John T. Dorsey.
“He encouraged me not to testify,” Hailer told the court. “He said I should come to Dubai and he said the salary would start on day one.”
This development was first reported by Bloomberg.
Raveendran is fighting to regain control of his struggling education technology empire, Byju’s, which is currently under court supervision in both India and the US.
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Earlier this year, Judge Dorsey held another Byju’s associate in contempt for fleeing the US just before their testimony.