A former executive for a flooring manufacturer in Northwest Georgia has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for defrauding the company, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Jana Kanyadan, 54, is the former global chief information officer for Mohawk Industries. In 2019, the company began a large, multi-year IT project and outsourced work to consulting firms.
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Kanyadan secretly organized and controlled a Georgia company called Meta Technology Platforms and used his position at Mohawk to retain Meta Tech as a vendor, diverting work to the company, according to the news release.
Between May 7, 2022, and Oct. 2, 2022, Meta Tech submitted invoices to Mohawk totaling more than $3 million, but the invoices did not disclose Kanyadan’s relationship to Meta Tech. The invoices also charged Mohawk for services that weren’t performed and software that wasn’t provided, according to the news release.