The Next Step: Class Action Lawsuit Against Sirius 'Open Source'?
Last summer: What Needs to Happen Next With Sirius 'Open Source'
THE Sirius Open Source saga is far from over because the biggest issues remain unsolved, some contractors are unpaid, and former staff got defrauded, with their pensions embezzled (basically stolen) by managers. This is a serious crime. It's pension fraud. It is, suffice to say, not accidental. It's theft, it carries a prison sentence whether you break into a home by smashing a window with a crowbar or steal a portion of people's salary (telling them it's for pension but instead putting that inside one's pocket while issuing a fraudulent payslip). British police should have been all over this, as the evidence is perfectly clear, but it is understaffed, underfunded, and in this case an extradition would be required to arrest the CEO.
The company and its Directors have now been given 3 notices.
The CEO ran the company with his wife, who still uses a Microsoft (Hotmail) account in 2023. She contacted me earlier this year and a Microsoft address did not shock me. Well, she never used or understood GNU/Linux, she used a "Mac" and "iPhone", i.e. proprietary stuff. In a company called Sirius Open Source...
Rejection of "Open Source" was only the start of the downfall.
Here are the notices sent over the past fortnight (names redacted):
Legal action
You, unlike ██████, are in the UK and you participated in the fraud, both as a wife of the CEO and a Director. You were fully aware of what was happening all those years.
We shall initiate legal action to recover the stolen money, plus interest, and hold you accountable for the role in this crime. If you believe you are not the suitable person to sue, you will need to produce solid evidence of it.
Regards,
Roy and others
Second notice (deadline about a week later):
Still waiting for your reply. Will escalate if we do not hear by Friday at 5PM. We assume silence means you have nothing to show or say in your defence. We may initiate further action without any additional notice to you.
Notice sent to the current CEO and company (█████@, sales@, support@ and support-noc@ where the victims worked):
About a week ago we contacted █████, who had attempted (weakly) to distance herself from these crimes of █████ █████ and of Sirius as a company. █████ too is distraught about the pension fraud committed by Sirius, but she was a part of that and one of the perpetrators.The company knowingly plundered people's money - it committed crimes against its own staff. Short of an impending settlement, to be agreed upon by former members of staff, we the victims will proceed with legal action shortly. There are prosecutional aspects as well, forcing the shutdown of operations for recovery of any remaining funds (stolen money).
The people who stole the money are not named above (we redacted the names). We have no reasons to believe that the financial advisor, pension firm, accounting firm, or the company directly benefited from the theft. The embezzled money was misused for personal perks by two people. There are multiple victims (robbed by those two people, one of whom based in the UK) and even if the company loaned money from the bank the people who stole the money used it for personal "needs", such as going to Disneyworld and Disneyland (showing off, class signalling).
It should be noted that based on job ads from this past summer, they still have significant money to offer as salaries, even if they try to hide that. They cannot claim to be entirely broke if they keep spending money.
We're still trying to get a complete list of the victims. We know of men and women who were robbed, but surely there are more victims we don't know about (they don't know about it, either). Would they be willing to jointly file a lawsuit against the thieves and seek justice for the Sirius pension fraud? It would make it more affordable to all. The more people we get onboard with the lawsuit, the cheaper it'll be for each victim to seek reparation and maybe a prison sentence for the perpetrators.
It should be noted that one of the thieves contacted me and she is not denying it. She knows what she did. She must be terrified. Past crimes were only temporarily "in the past" (hidden, concealed from the victims). █