Tamouf suits Del, Del denies “all legal errors”, and the recession is the main witness

It is gloves in one of the most tense competitions in the world of startups. The Human Resources Company, Tamouj, announced on Monday morning a lawsuit against Del, another big player in the same area. Dramatic complaint that can accommodate blackmail, misuse of commercial secrets, arbitrary intervention, unfair competition, help and induce the breach of the credit duty. The lawsuit is largely centered on an employee who was working for the requests for the DEEL.

Del denied these allegations in a statement to Techcrunch in a pink way in the same extent, which puts the way to broadcast more dirty laundry:

A spokesman said in a statement submitted to Techcrunch: “We deny all legal errors and look forward to confirming our counter -claims.”

Is this city great enough for each of us?

Human resource technology space is very competitive, not only is characterized by the main occupants – SAP, ADP, working day between them – but also many startups that target many different aspects of human resources, such as salary statements, employment, training, compensation, benefits management, and joy. Companies such as Deel and Rigling aim to provide a one -in -one platform for these services.

When going good and the economy is in a state of height – as during the epidemic, when organizations have defended to get better tools to employ and manage people and manage people across different sites – the crowded market is less than a problem. But love ends when the times become more stringent, especially when two companies are close to size like ripples and Deel and targeting the same customers. (One of the indicators of how these two compete directly: Rippling is a little more than $ 13 billion; Deel has been evaluated by more than $ 12 billion.)

Tensions between Deel and Rigpling began to play publicly before this lawsuit. Last year, Rigpling launched the market campaign that targeted Dile to Deel, which includes a “snake game”. Game, It is still accessibleDel is depicted as a snake and accuses a company that imposes higher fees than ripples.

The competition took another turn when the Deel Sales Manager visited the site to check the game, and share a chatbot on the page, then later see the TWTTER exchange exchange with COO from the ripple. (troll He did not play as expectedWith customers who are concerned about what they saw as doxxing through ripples.)

The dispute also included allegations of compliance with Russian sanctions. Rippling complaint refers to claims, although the two companies faced the audit in terms of its connection with this case. (More details here))

Forensic medicine played a major role in the lawsuit

What is completely noticeable in the lawsuit is the amount of evidence for Ripbling’s claims about recession.

Ripplings’ lawyers note that the company maintains a record of what people are doing on the sales -owned chat platform. It is noted that the “recession staff activity” is “registered”, meaning that the user looks at the document through Slack, arrives at the recession channel, sends a message or performs search operations on Slack, this activity (and the user associated) is recorded in a record file. “

It was a sudden rise in this recorded activity, specifically how you focus on the word “Deel” that raised the flag to the team (HR?), Which follows this activity.

“Starting in November 2024, (an employee referred to as) DS (SIC) displays the channels with a rate of orders in terms of size greater than before – whether in terms of the number of inspection channels, and in the number of times he inspected each of these channels.”

The lawsuit states that many of these channels contain confidential discussions of sales and business strategy, with a special focus on Deel.

“The channels that were examined during this period are not related to the responsibilities of making its salaries,” says the complaint. “What is associated with, however, are all aspects of developing Rippling business, sales, customer retention strategies – the most sensitive to the company’s sales and marketing secrets and secret work information – with a special focus on one competitor, Deel.

“There is no doubt that the final beneficiary of the shameful espionage scheme has seen the DS channels specifically with the competitive intelligence of the RipPling regarding Deel more than 450 times during the plan … in fact, the 10 best DS channels since November 2024 are all the sales -related channels, completely not fully related to the role of DS in the amount.”

Lawyers also claim that the employee reads and downloads the relevant stock exchanges and documents in those channels, and worked to help try to hunt people from ripple.

The drama is real

According to the lawsuit, he created a “calamity” to prove its doubts. The company created the fake recession channel and shared its name using Key Deel Execs, then sat again to see if the DS searched for it. (Among the executives, Chairman, Financial Director, General Adviser Philip Bouziz, Chairman of Del Law, Spiros Comes; and Del outer lawyer.)

Things were then heated, according to the file, who says that when an independent lawyer tried to seize the DS by order of the court, DS fled to the bathroom, “holding the door behind him and refused to go out, despite the repeated warnings of the independent lawyer.”

Instead of compliance, he continues, “he heard DS” is doing something “on his phone by an independent lawyer, who also heard DS Flush The Toilet – indicating that DS may have tried to wipe his phone under the toilet instead of inspection.” The phone was not recovered later.

Ultimately, DS left the bathroom, as the complaint says, and when I was again confronted with the threat that violates the court, he said, “I am ready to bear this danger.”

“Then I stormed DS from the office and fled from the scene,” the lawyers note.

Rippling has not been answered to the questions that Techcrunch asked whether he also intends to file a DS case or whether it can confirm the name.

But although the company that gave the alleged spy is a group of first letters, it did only a little precious to hide his identity. He spent when the person joined, describing the person as “he” and described the role he had in the company very easy to find the person suspected of spying on LinkedIn. (The person we have contacted since then delete his profile on the site.)