A BP oil trader has lost an employment lawsuit against the firm after a tribunal ruled he was not entitled to whistle-blower protections.
Jonathan Zarembok, who was fired from his job after flagging concerns about potential bribes being paid to Nigerian middlemen, claimed he was forced out unfairly.
He raised concerns about “abnormally large” fee payments being made to local agents in Nigeria in BP’s dealings with the country’s state-owned oil producer NNPC.
The oil trader later filed an employment lawsuit against his former employer over claims he was forced out of his job at the British oil major for blowing the whistle on the fee payments made to local agents working with Africa’s biggest oil company.
However, an employment tribunal dismissed Zarembok’s claims in ruling the oil trader is not entitled to whistle-blower protections, after it determined the BP exec’s flagging of concerns had failed to show any “wrongdoing was likely rather than merely possible”.
The case comes after Zarembok was fired from his job as a head trader on BP’s West Africa desk in April 2020 after taking parental leave in 2018.
The BP exec, who was paid a six-figure annual salary and given multiple multi-million-dollar bonuses, filed four claims against his former employer, in stating he was pushed out of his position at the British oil company for taking parental leave and blowing the whistle on BP’s Nigerian deals.
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