South African technology investor Andr Pienaar, founder of London-based C5 Capital, has been drawn into a legal fight in Washington, where he is accused of taking part in an influence campaign to help Amazon win a 10 billion U.S. Defense Department cloud-computing contract.
The allegation comes from Oracle executive vice president Kenneth Glueck, who filed a defamation suit against Pienaar and Washington lobbyist Juleanna Glover in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Glueck claims the pair falsely told journalists last year that he fabricated information in presentations he shared with U.S. lawmakers and law enforcement beginning in 2018.
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