Lenders have alleged that Byju’s hid $533 million in an obscure three-year-old hedge fund to avoid it being seized to make up for a loan default, but the ed-tech titan claimed its agreement with lenders did not explicitly proscribe movement of funds. Byju’s US-based subsidiary Alpha Inc transferred more than half a billion dollars to Camshaft Capital Fund in 2022, Bloomberg reported, citing a lawsuit in US court. The investment firm, founded by William C Morton when he was just 23 years old, received the funds despite an apparent lack of formal training in investment.
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