{"url_path":"/sec/cety/8-k/2026-07-16/item-4-01","section_key":"item-4-01","section_title":"Item 4.01 Changes In Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-07-16","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1329606/0001493152-26-033582-index.html","accession_number":"0001493152-26-033582","cik":"0001329606","ticker":"CETY","issuer_name":"Clean Energy Technologies, Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1329606/0001493152-26-033582-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001329606","primary_entity_name":"Clean Energy Technologies, Inc."},"word_count":504,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"** **\n\n**Item\n4.01. Changes In Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.**\n\n \n\n**Previous\nCertifying Accounting Firm**\n\n \n\n(i)\nOn July 13, 2026, Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) notified TAAD LLP (the “Former Accounting\nFirm”) of its dismissal as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.\n\n \n\n(ii)\nThe reports of the Former Accounting Firm on the Company’s financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended December 31,\n2025 and 2024, contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope,\nor accounting principles except as set forth in subparagraph (iii) below.\n\n \n\n(iii)\nThe reports of the Former Accounting Firm on the Company’s financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2025\nand 2024, contained an explanatory paragraph which noted that there was substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue\nas a going concern.\n\n \n\n(iv)\nThe Company’s Audit Committee approved the dismissal of the Former Accounting Firm.\n\n \n\n(v)\nDuring the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, and during the interim period through July 13, 2026, there (i) have been no disagreements\nwith the Former Accounting Firm on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope\nor procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of the Former Accounting Firm, would have caused the Former Accounting\nFirm to make reference to the subject matter of such disagreements in its reports on the financial statements for such years, and (ii)\nwere no reportable events of the kind referenced in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.\n\n \n\n(vi)\nThe Company provided the Former Accounting Firm a copy of this Current Report on Form 8-K and requested that the Former Accounting Firm\nfurnish it with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether it agrees with the disclosures the Company\nis making in response to Item 304(a) of Reg. S-K, and, if not, stating the respects in which it does not agree. A copy of the letter\nfrom the Former Accounting Firm is attached hereto as Exhibit 16.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.\n\n \n\n**New\nIndependent Accountants**\n\n \n\nOn\nJuly 16, 2026, the Company engaged Green Growth CPAs (the “New Accounting Firm”) as its independent registered public\naccounting firm. The Company has not consulted with the New Accounting Firm during our two most recent fiscal years or during the subsequent\ninterim period through July 16, 2026, regarding (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed\nor proposed; (ii) the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on our financial statements, and neither a written report was\nprovided to us nor oral advice was provided that the New Accounting Firm concluded was an important factor considered by the Company\nin reaching a decision as to an accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (iii) any matter that was either the subject\nof disagreement (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions) or a reportable event (within the meaning\nof Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K)."}