NEW YORK (Reuters)–The administrator of MF Global Holdings Ltd’s bankruptcy plan on Friday sued the auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers for at least $1 billion over its advice on a $6.3 billion European sovereign debt investment that helped fuel the brokerage’s rapid demise.
According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, PwC committed professional malpractice by offering “flatly erroneous” advice concerning, and approval of, the off-balance-sheet accounting treatment for the debt by MF Global and its then-chief executive, Jon Corzine.
The complaint said PwC knew that the investment would add significant risk to MF Global’s already weak finances. It said MF Global would not have taken on the exposure, which allowed it to book immediate revenue, had it received sound advice.
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