Former Twitter CEO Indian-American Parag Agrawal is one of three top Twitter executives filing suit against Elon Musk, who sacked them last year when he took over the social media company. They are reportedly seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and Congressional inquiries related to their former jobs.
Ex-CEO Agrawal, along with the company's former chief legal and financial officers, claim in the suit that they are owed a total of more than USD 1 million, and that Twitter is legally bound to pay them.
Twitter responded to requests for comment with a poop emoji, as has become its practice.
The court filing outlined numerous expenses related to inquiries by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), but does not include details on the nature of the investigations or whether they are still ongoing.
Agrawal and then-chief financial officer Ned Segal provided testimony to the SEC last year and "have continued to engage with federal authorities", according to court documents.
The SEC is investigating whether Musk complied with securities rules when he amassed Twitter shares.
Former Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde was called on to take part in a US Congressional hearing about big tech and free speech following Musk's release late last year of the ’Twitter Files’, email releases related to the site's content moderation.
Gadde was also named as a defendant in a lawsuit by a man who claimed he was "doxed" at Twitter as a white supremacist, the filing said.
Musk terminated Agrawal, Gadde and Segal from their posts in late October after closing his contentious USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter.
The three former executives argue that Twitter is bound by agreements to reimburse them, but has done no more than acknowledge it received their invoices.