A team of Paul Hastings attorneys is representing a multinational customer-support provider in theft of trade secrets claims against its former CEO, a man who became the subject of Congressional investigations last year around forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims. 

According to a new filing in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti, also known as Zia Chishti, left as CEO of Afiniti Inc. in November 2021, but when he did he took core company secrets and a team of employees and started a competing company overseas.