Thiruvananthapuram: Former employees of social media influencer Diya Krishna has leveled serious accusations against her and her father Malayalam actor-politician Krishna Kumar.

Earlier today, Museum Police in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram registered a case against Krishna Kumar and Diya in connection to a complaint filed by her ex staff.

“It was Diya Krishna who instructed us to transfer the money received from customers to our personal accounts,” one staff member alleged.

“Earlier, she told us she was facing issues with her bank.”

Later, Diya reportedly stated that the arrangement was due to tax-related concerns, which is why she allegedly provided employee bank details to customers for payments.

“She had instructed us to return the money to her in cash, either once a month or whenever she visited the store. Multiple times, she also asked us to send the money in self-attested envelopes along with the jewellery whenever Swiggy Genie came to collect them, from the office.” said the employee.

Staff further claimed that Diya was largely absent from the store, and that all transaction-related work, including purchases and managing customer payments, was handled by them.

"It became concerining when Diya started using our details for everything from payments to international orders. She never used her phone number or address for anything,”

“Diya never visited the office. She was always travelling or spending time with her friends and family,” she said.

Initially, when the employees expressed their intent to resign, Diya allegedly asked them to stay on until her delivery.

“Later, she began threatening us,” one former staff member claimed.

The staff, speaking to reporters, alleged that Diya had kidnapped them. They also alleged that they were threatened to pay Rs 5 lakh and was taken into her apartment. 

They allege that Diya threatened to file a theft case against them using screenshots of customer payments made to their accounts.

“She told us she would use those screenshots to claim we had stolen the money, and also use them to extract money from customers, and file a theft case against us.” one of them revealed.

“We have the screenshots of her messages about this. We have all the conversations where Diya is threatening us and demanding Rs 5 lakh as compensation for the losses she claimed she faced,” the former employee added.

the staff also stated that Diya had asked them to not to speak about this to anyone else.

“After receiving the money from us, the family members of Diya Krishna started filming us without our permission,” they said. 

Earlier, Krishnakumar had filed a complaint against three employees of his daughter Diya Krishna’s establishment, alleging they manipulated the QR code set up for UPI payments and siphoned off Rs 69 lakh. Based on this, a case was registered against the three employees. Another case was also filed against the husband of one of the accused for allegedly threatening Diya over the phone.