Singapore-based Fashion technology startup Zilingo Pte has fired co-founder Ankiti Bose, following an independent forensic audit into complaints of serious financial irregularities.

On March 31, CEO Bose was placed under suspension following complaints of alleged discrepancies in the company accounts.

The board had suspended its CEO and co-founder Ankiti Bose in March with the backing of major investors, pending a probe by an independent firm they hired.

The co-founder has been locked in a feud with the board and major Zilingo investor Sequoia Capital India amid allegations of potential accounting irregularities.

Bose has disputed the claims of wrongdoing.

Bose said in a separate statement to Bloomberg News her employment was terminated on grounds of “insubordination."

Zilingo works with thousands of apparel factories and merchants in South Asia and Southeast Asia, connecting them to retailers worldwide and was valued at nearly $1 billion in its last funding round in 2019, according to sources familiar with the situation.

The company was founded in 2015 by Bose and chief technology officer Dhruv Kapoor as a Southeast Asia focused e-commerce firm and then transformed into a global supply chain enabler for the highly fragmented apparel sector.

It provides logistics, financing and other services to factories and merchants.

"Due to Zilingo's failure to fulfill prior obligations under the loan agreement, the company's lenders have made the decision to accelerate the repayment of the entire loan," Zilingo's board said in a statement to Reuters.