MILWAUKEE, WI -- (Marketwire) -- 12/24/09 -- Koss Corporation (NASDAQ: KOSS), the U.S.based high-fidelity stereophone leader, announced that following thediscovery of unauthorized financial transactions, Sujata Sachdeva, theCompany's Vice President of Finance and Secretary, has been terminated.Ms. Sachdeva served as the Company's Principal Accounting Officer. Also,two members of the Company's accounting staff who served under Ms. Sachdevawere placed on unpaid administrative leave.The scope of the Company's previously disclosed internal investigation ofunauthorized financial transactions has been expanded to include fiscalyears since 2006 and to the present. Preliminary estimates indicate thatthe amount of unauthorized transactions since fiscal year 2006 through thepresent may exceed $20 million, but at this point the Company and itsadvisors cannot assess the potential impact on its financial statements oridentify the extent that specific fiscal periods may be affected. Nor canthe Company and its advisors yet assess the extent of the possible offsetsthrough insurance, asset recoveries and other mechanisms related to theunauthorized transactions. As a result, the Company has concluded that itspreviously issued financial statements at least since the end of its 2006fiscal year should no longer be relied upon. The Company plans to restateits financial statements for such periods as further investigationindicates.
The Company's internal investigation, supervised by an independentcommittee of the board of directors, including the committee's independentcounsel and forensic accountants, is continuing, as are efforts to recovermerchandise related to the unauthorized transactions. The Companycontinues to work with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.
Koss Corporation markets a complete line of high-fidelity stereophone,speaker-phones, computer headsets, telecommunications headsets, activenoise canceling stereophones, wireless stereophones, and compact discrecordings of American Symphony Orchestras on the Koss Classics label.
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Michael J. Koss
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