Things are happening in the Wolves office. While Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore had to change financiers one week before the “deadline” to buy back the franchise, an employee was fired in recent weeks, accused of having stolen thousands of internal documents, containing “strategic information “.
Executive vice-president of the club, in charge of advanced stats, Sachin Gupta had left in his office an external hard drive containing his personal financial information, but also confidential data about the team, including details of players' contracts.
The inventor of the “trade machine” had left for the weekend on February 2 but, upon his return to the Target Center on Monday, he discovered that the external hard drive was no longer there.
5,000 documents copied
It apparently didn't take long for the Wolves to find the source of the problem since surveillance cameras showed that Somak Sarkar, a 33-year-old analyst who worked with the coaching staff, had entered the office in absence of Sachin Gupta, checking in advance that no one saw him enter.
In the process, Somak Sarkar was fired and a complaint was filed against himbecause if the external hard drive was recovered, the franchise saw that 5,000 documents had been copied to another storage medium.
From now on, the analyst, who worked upstream with the Knicks, the Pelicans and the Rockets, will have to go to court, while he explained that as a member of the “coaching staff”, he had simply taken the hard drive “to put things in it”and he had just forgotten to put it back in place.
The complaint adds, however, that Somak Sarkar was demoted in the Wolves organizational chart last summer, due to “poor performance” on the professional plan.
