Verint Systems controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2021
Human-rights concerns over surveillance technology supplied to South Sudan
Amnesty International reported that an Israeli Verint subsidiary supplied communications-interception equipment and annual support services to South Sudanese authorities, including the National Security Service, between 2015 and 2017. Amnesty connected its concern to allegations of harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and extrajudicial killing involving critics of the South Sudanese government.
2006
Stock-options backdating controversy affecting parent company
Comverse Technology, Verint's majority owner at the time, became involved in a stock-options backdating controversy beginning in 2006. The broader parent-company crisis was followed by financial-reporting problems, losses, and layoffs, and contributed to the delisting of Verint and Comverse from Nasdaq in 2007.