Nearly two weeks after audio clips of him abusing Kotak Mahindra Bank employees surfaced, BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover has “notified” the company’s board of directors of his decision to continue “voluntary leave” until the end of March, the company said in a statement.
“Ashneer Grover, our co-founder and managing director (Managing Director), has today informed the board of his decision to voluntarily leave BharatPe until the end of March. Ashneer co-founded BharatPe from scratchand his decision is in line with his commitment to A passionate commitment to the company’s future success,” the statement read.
Grover’s decision has been “tentatively” accepted by BharatPe’s board, with both parties agreeing that it will be “in the best interests of the company, employees and investors”. On January 5, an anonymous person tweeted a link to the file on the audio hosting platform Soundcloud. In the clip, a bank employee is heard trying to reassure two clients angry about the bank’s failure to fund their application and buy shares on their behalf during the IPO of FSN E-commerce Ventures, which operates cosmetics platform Nykaa .
The clients were allegedly Grover and his wife Madhuri, while the bank employee was from Kotak Mahindra Bank. Grover and his wife allegedly used inappropriate language on the phone and threatened the employee.
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