Evoqua Water Technologies to pay $8.5M for alleged revenue inflation
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Adrianne Appel2023-03-14T16:38:00
A Pennsylvania-based company that designs industrial wastewater treatment and filtration plants agreed to pay $8.5 million to resolve charges it misstated its revenue in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The SEC announced Monday it charged Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. and a former company finance director, Imran Parekh, with improper accounting practices in the firm’s 2017 and 2018 filings with the agency.
The SEC alleged Parekh, as finance director of Rhode Island-based acquisition Neptune Benson, inflated revenues by nearly $12 million for fiscal year 2017 as Evoqua was preparing to go public.
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