| US Department of Justice against HP, Sun and Accenture |
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| Friday, 20 April 2007 | ||||
 The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against three IT giants such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Accenture. Specifically the accusation, that was made official last Thursday, claims that the three firms “paid and received kickbacks from IT partners in exchange for preferential treatment on government contracts” and that they submitted several false claims about government contracts since late ‘90s , the magazine Infoworld reported. The accusation was originally formalized by an Accenture employee who declared that the companies created strong relationship with many IT vendors, in order to provide each other discounts, rebates on products and/or work in government contracts. The problem is that, according to the documents related to the lawsuit, the companies didn’t pass the rebates to their clients.The Department of justice also said that "Millions of dollars of kickbacks were sought, received, offered and paid" between HP, Sun , Accenture and their partners.
Both HP and Accenture spokesmen disclosed notes claiming that they are confident they acted legally and appropriately, whereas Sun hasn’t released yet any comment.
During the preliminary investigation emerged that Accenture received more than $20 million in payments from partners between 2000 and 2006. Among Accenture partners were companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Oracle. The suits were presented by whistleblowers who took advantage of the US False Claims Act. According to the False Claims Act , a citizen can start a legal action on behalf of the US and then receive a part of the recovery.
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