Daramola Tayo (Tayo Daramola)

Biography

2019: Charge of Oracle of sale of products which are absent

At the beginning of December, 2019 the former manager of cloud projects of Oracle Tayo Daramola filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that that sold the nonexistent or incorrectly working products within the cloud service intended for the universities. Daramola who announced fraud lost work and now tries to seize compensation from the American IT giant.

Affirms as the civil action submitted by lawyers on behalf of Tayo Daramola to district court of the USA in San Francisco that Oracle broke the law "About Protection of the Persons Making Office Revelations".

Oracle was convicted of sale of nonexistent products

According to the claimant, during operation detected problems with the cloud project of Oracle intended for the universities. Among other things he learned that some software products did not work, and others did not even exist. Daramola reported that he did not want to participate in "distortion of information and probable fraud" and afterwards submitted the report to Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result the company was up in arms against the manager and forced it to leave a post because of what Daramola decided to submit a claim on the company to district court of San Francisco.

Oracle degraded Daramola, deprived of him a serious position … because Daramola revealed fraud, refused to participate in it and reported about it to the authorities, said in the claim.

We do not agree with these statements and intend to protect vigorously the position in this question — the press secretary of Oracle Deborah Hellinger categorically said.

Tayo Daramola lives in Montreal and worked in NetSuite ("subsidiary" of Oracle) from November, 2016 to October, 2017 as the project manager of Cloud Campus BookStore - the cloud service used by several educational institutions. Cloud Campus BookStore together with advertizing agencies and producers of clothes are among market segments on which Oracle and NetSuite are focused. The University of Washington, the University of Oregon, the University of Texas at Austin, Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California were among Daramola's clients.

Tayo Daramola says that a considerable part of large projects which he had to manage was in the status "developments", and many products sold to buyers from the USA do not exist

In the course of Daramol's work gradually realized that a considerable part of large projects which he had to manage was in the status "developments", and many products sold to buyers from the USA do not exist, do not function as should and/or were not developed during sale to the buyer, said in the claim yet.

Besides, it turned out that a part of job responsibilities of Daramola as project manager was in that "ratify, advance and sell invalid products of Oracle all to new clients who allegedly were improved to correspond to all customer expectations".

The similar strategy of project management was directed to giving Oracle time for development and improvement of functionality of software products which Oracle already sold to the customer though at the time of signing of the contract these products did not even exist or were not finished yet.

Thus, as noticed Daramol, his work as the project manager demanded from him participation "in deliberate distortion of information, omission separate and fraud for benefit of the company".

The former employee of Oracle told how the company sold to educational institutions cloud services which are absent or which do not work properly

According to the claim, on August 3, 2017 Daramola refused to participate that he considered illegal activity, and reported about it to the head. And on August 16, 2017 it submitted the report on violation of the law to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Within the next month Oracle deprived of Daramolu of the majority of privileges and on October 13, 2017 "dismissed" him, having forced to resign because of a hostile working situation. Because of the agreement which Daramola signed, having joined Oracle, he could not work in a similar position within the next twelve months.

Affirms as the claim that repeated attempts of Oracle to deceive the clients broke the federal Law "About the Organizations Which Are under the influence of Racket, and the Corrupted Organizations". In order that the civil action falling under operation of this law was satisfied, the claimant should prove that the defendant committed one of the crimes provided by the law i.e. fraud using mail or fraud using electronic means. The citizen who announced similar actions can receive the amount three times exceeding his losses though judges demand serious proofs before solving similar cases for benefit of the claimant.

It is also worth noting that Oracle not for the first time faces the claim for an occasion of violation of the law "About protection of the persons making office revelations". In 2016 a similar claim was submitted by Svetlana Blackburn, the former chief revenue inspector of Oracle. Earlier she reported in relevant organs that heads ordered it to inflate in a fraudulent way gross sales of corporate cloud services. In 2017 Oracle settled claims of the former employee (though denies any offenses). However this time the company is not going to hand over positions and is ready to dispute Daramola's claims, including their unauthorized. At this Oracle claims that not only did not dismiss Daramolu, but also did not force to sell it nonexistent to software.^[1]

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