Indian held in US for fudging expense accounts

Navdeep Arora, who had been a senior partner in McKinsey’s Chicago office, was arrested on Sunday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after arriving in New York following a flight from London, according to court papers. 

He was named in an indictment filed in federal court in Chicago along with a former internal State Farm consultant, Matthew Sorensen, who the indictment said participated in the scheme. 

Arora, who joined KPMG in 2014 after leaving McKinsey, was expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon. His court-appointed lawyer had no immediate comment. 

The indictment said in 2004, Arora fraudulently charged McKinsey and State Farm and another firm for $490,975 as expenses, the bulk of which Sorensen retained, the indictment said. Arora also submitted fraudulent expenses for domestic and international trips for himself, Sorensen and others to cities including Miami, Las Vegas, New York, Prague and London, the indictment said. Arora also charged personal hotel, meal and theater tickets. 

McKinsey spokeswoman Rachel Grant said the firm discovered this situation in 2011, notified the client, “terminated the employee involved”.