In 2018, Karl Hansen made the headlines after filing a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Tesla. The former internal investigator said that Tesla was hiding around $37 million in losses due to raw material theft, particularly copper. Hansen also accused the EV maker of spying on its employees and failing to tell the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that an employee could be involved with drug dealing. Hansen now opened a crowdfunding campaign to help him fight Tesla in court.
On his GoFundMe page, Hansen talks about his career in the military. He used to be a Special Agent assigned to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, Protective Services Battalion.” In other words, he knows a thing or two about solving crimes after he “spent a career engaged in this type of work.” That is why Tesla hired him in 2018.
According to Hansen, he “was tasked to conduct several very high-profile and specific internal investigations pertaining to potentially damaging alleged criminal activity at the Gigafactory.” Weirdly for the investigator, after he presented his findings, he started to witness “ongoing efforts to minimize and marginalize” his efforts.
That ultimately led to Tesla firing him. Hansen shares that he believes it was a consequence of doing his work thoroughly and “recommending specific actions that needed to be undertaken to protect the company.” This is not the first report of retaliation that we have heard...
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