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S12 Financial Times HP accuses Autonomy founder of fraud.
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Hewlett has accused Autonomy of inflating sales and committing accounting chicanery before the sale.
HP has accused Autonomy's management of "disclosure failures" that overvalued the company prior to its takeover in 2011.
HP wrote down Autonomy's value by $8.8bn£5.2bnbn) a year later and accused Autonomy officials of accounting fraud, which those executives have denied.
H.P. has accused Autonomy of improperly accounting for much of its sales in the years before H.P. bought the company last year.
The Justice Department started looking into the matter late last year, shortly after H.P. accused Autonomy employees of fabricating sales in a ruse that drove up the company's sale price.
In November 2012 Hewlett-Packard accused Autonomy's management of inflating the value of the company through "accounting improprieties" and announced it would write down Autonomy's value by $8.8 billion.
The company accused Autonomy of improperly reporting $709 million in revenue over two-and-a-half years before the purchase.
But within a year around three-quarters of the value of the business had been written off, with HP accusing Autonomy's management of accounting misrepresentations and disclosure failures.
Finally, she accuses Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder and chief, of "accounting improprieties".
In an escalation of the row, HP has also accused Deloitte UK, Autonomy's auditor, of playing down evidence from a whistleblower.
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