Lawsuit Overview
October 3, 2017 - The case was voluntarily dismissed.
July 5, 2017 - An investor in shares of Quadrant 4 System Corp (OTCMKTS: QFOR) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey over alleged violations of Federal Securities Laws by Quadrant 4 System Corp in connection with certain allegedly false and misleading statements made between August 14, 2012 and June 30, 2017.
According to the complaint the plaintiff alleges on behalf of purchasers of Quadrant 4 System Corp (OTCMKTS: QFOR) common shares between August 14, 2012 and June 30, 2017, that the defendants violated Federal Securities Laws.
More specifically, the plaintiff claims that between August 14, 2012 and June 30, 2017 the defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that defendant Nandu Thondavadi, former CEO of Quadrant 4 System Corp and defendant Dhru Desai, former CFO of Quadrant 4 System Corp, engaged in an accounting fraud scheme that misled investors, that defendants Thondavadi and Desai stole more than $4 million from Quadrant 4 System Corp, that defendants Thondavadi and Desai caused Quadrant 4 System Corp to understate its liabilities and inflate its revenues and assets and evaded scrutiny by lying to Quadrant 4 System Corp’s auditors and providing them with forged and doctored documents, and that as a result, defendants’ public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Schaumburg, IL based Quadrant 4 System Corp is engaged in providing cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) products to the health insurance, media and education verticals. Quadrant 4 System Corp reported that its annual Total Revenue rose from $48.49 million in 2014 to $52.04 million in 2015 and that its Net Loss declined from $1.07 million in 2014 to $0.52 million in 2015.
On November 30, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) revealed that it had charged Nandu Thondavadi, Quadrant 4 System Corp's then current CEO with misrepresenting the Company's cash flows and concealing its liabilities in Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) filings.
On June 30, 2017, the SEC announced that it had charged Nandu Thondavadi and Quadrant 4 System Corp's former chief financial officer Dhru Desai in an accounting fraud scheme that deceived shareholders and allowed the former executives to collect millions from the firm for their own advantage.