NEW DELHI: Networking giant Cisco has been accused of orchestrating the arrest of a UK-based engineer. Cisco Systems allegedly led to the arrest of Multiven founder Peter Alfred-Adekeye in 2010 to force a settlement of Multiven's antitrust lawsuit against Cisco, a Multiven executive reportedly said.
According to a report in ComputerWorld, Multiven, an independent provider of service and support for networking gear, sued Cisco in 2008, alleging that the company monopolized the market for its software. Cisco countersued, charging Alfred-Adekeye of hacking into Cisco's computers and stealing copyrighted software.
The media report says that in May 2010, Adekeye was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, on 97 counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer system without authorization for the purposes of commercial advantage, according to his arrest warrant.
The ComputerWorld report quotes Canada-based Vancouever Sun, according to which "US authorities made serious mistakes having a British computer executive bizarrely arrested in Vancouver as he testified before a sitting of the American court he was supposedly avoiding."
The report says that for the last 10 months, Adekeye has been forced to remain in Canada since his release from custody under strict bail conditions.
His lawyer, Marilyn Sandford, called the explanation contained in a letter presented to BC Supreme Court "completely pathetic", and characterized the prosecutor's reasoning as "tortured" and "laughable," reports Vancouver Sun.
Sandford reportedly alleged that the US attorney colluded with computer giant Cisco Systems to commit an appalling abuse of process. "This was not full, fair and frank disclosure," she said. The prosecutor failed to tell Canada that Adekeye was a former Cisco executive involved in a massive anti-trust suit filed in Dec. 2008 against the company.
Adekeye's lawyer has asked Justice Ronald McKinnon to halt the extradition.
Adekeye left Cisco in 2005 to start his own companies. Three years later, he alleged that his former employer Cisco harmed his new ventures and consumers by forcing customers to buy a maintenance contract to cover future software fixes for its operating system and applications.
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