Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue spied on three former employees and their families over allegations of stolen intellectual property, a court has heard.
Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s company Fortescue is fighting to suppress a 600-page private investigator report, which details its extensive spying on ex-staff and their extended family members, in a court case that alleges stolen intellectual property.
It has accused the men of copying and taking the company’s intellectual property when they left to start a rival green iron project, called Element Zero. “Fortescue’s external legal team have been reminded that they also have an obligation to comply with the company’s values and their engagement is now under review.”Masterman, who is Element Zero’s chief executive, has called Fortescue’s claims “spurious” and said that their “green metals technology was developed independently of, and is very different from, anything that Fortescue is doing or has done in this space”.to raid the offices and homes of two of the men from mid-May.
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