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SYDNEY – An Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in a US court seeking cumulative payments of approximately A$1 million ($901,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court documents showed .
Sydney-based private company Facilitate Corp filed a lawsuit on June 29 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for breach of contract alleging Twitter’s failure to pay its bills.
The Australian company’s lawsuit is the latest bill and rent non-payment suit against Twitter since Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022 for $44 billion ($59.5 billion).
Facilitate said it installed sensors in Twitter’s London and Dublin offices from 2022 to early 2023, completed office fit-out in Singapore and vacated an office in Sydney.
For those works, Twitter owed the company about £203,000 (S$348,000), S$546,600 and A$61,300 respectively, Facilitate said.
Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. Reuters was unable to reach Twitter’s Australian office immediately.
Facilitate said it was seeking damages in an amount to be determined at trial, legal fees and interest at the maximum statutory rate.
In May, a former public relations firm filed a lawsuit in a New York court saying Twitter had failed to pay its bills, while early this year US consulting firm Innisfree M&A sued it, seeking about $1.9 million for what according to him, were unpaid bills. after advising Twitter on the Musk acquisition.
Britain’s Crown Estate, an independent commercial company that manages the monarchy’s real estate portfolio, began legal proceedings in January over alleged unpaid rent at Twitter’s London headquarters. REUTERS
Australian company is suing Twitter for $901k for failing to pay bills
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