Twitter is facing a $700,000 lawsuit over unpaid bills for work including clearing out its Australian office and fitting-out its Singapore location
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- An Australian project management company is suing Twitter for around $700,000 of unpaid bills.
- That includes work fitting-out Twitter's Singapore office, and clearing out its Australian one.
- It's the latest in a myriad of lawsuits accusing Elon Musk's company of failing to pay bills.
Twitter is facing another lawsuit accusing it of not paying bills — including for work clearing out the company's Australian office.
Facilitate, an Australian project management company, filed the lawsuit seeking $700,000 in the Northern District of California on Thursday, Reuters first reported.
It says it carried out work on four of Twitter's offices around the world, with around $400,000 spent on a "full office fit-out construction" in Singapore.
The first invoice for that is dated October 28, 2022 — just one day after Elon Musk bought Twitter, the lawsuit says. That's a week before its first round of mass layoffs affected the Singapore office, Insider previously reported.
The Singapore office was first opened in 2015, and staff were briefly kicked out over a rent dispute in January before Musk ultimately made a late payment, Insider's Kali Hays reported.
From last September through to mid-March, three invoices totaling $40,000 relate to "decommissioning" Twitter's Australia office and putting its contents in storage, according to the suit.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported last July that Twitter was closing down its Sydney office, telling staff to work from home indefinitely.
Facilitate is also claiming over $250,000 for work at Twitter's London and Dublin offices, primarily related to installing sensors in work predating Musk's takeover.
The London office has already been involved in another lawsuit, as the landlord — King Charles III's Crown Estate — accused Twitter of failing to pay rent.
According to a May lawsuit filed by six ex-employees, Musk told one of his advisors in a 4 a.m. conversation that "he would only pay rent over his dead body."
Last month, a judge ruled that the local sheriff should help evict Twitter from its Boulder, Colorado office after not paying rent for months, per the Denver Business Journal.
"Following the acquisition, Facilitate corresponded about its outstanding invoices with its remaining contacts at the company," Facilitate's lawsuit says.
"They gave no indication that Twitter disputed it owed the amounts on the invoices and offered no justification for not paying."
Insider contacted Twitter for comment. The company responded with an automated message that didn't address the inquiry.