The whistleblower who triggered the scandal engulfing consulting giant KPMG Australia refused to move to Australia in part because he claimed he had been bullied by one of KPMG’s most senior executives at the time.
Documents released by a parliamentary committee this week show the whistleblower, who has not been identified, had been hired by KPMG outside Australia and had initially been open to moving back as the firm requested under its policies.
In July 2023, the freshly released emails show, the man said that he would not move back to Australia from an unknown country in part because of what he said was “bullying and defamation” by Kim Lawry, a top audit partner and board member at KPMG.
“I have raised with you and a number of other partners the inappropriate and bullying behaviour of Kim Lawry,” the whistleblower wrote to a colleague at the firm in 2024.
“I have been retaliated against as a consequence of not relocating to Australia and for concerns that I have raised around the behaviour of certain partners,” the whistleblower said in emails that had been made public by a parliamentary committee this week. The emails do not say what form the alleged bullying took.
Lawry, communicating through a spokesperson, declined to comment but pointed to KPMG’s previous response that the allegations had been investigated and were found to be unsubstantiated.
“KPMG has not been able to substantiate the allegation,” the firm told a parliamentary committee in April this year. “No...
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