Serial grifter Christen Ager-Hanssen (CAH) and his ‘gang that couldn’t sue straight’ have suffered an emphatic rejection of an unfair dismissal suit brought against blockchain technology firm nChain by two of its former senior executives.
On June 30, a three-member panel of the London Central Employment Tribunal (LCET) rejected claims of unfair dismissal by David Brookes and Andrew Moody, the former general counsel and chief financial officer, respectively, of nChain UK. The ruling also heaped scorn on the execs’ claims to be whistleblowers seeking to expose corporate wrongdoing by their former employer.
Brookes and Moody were dismissed from nChain in November 2023 for gross misconduct following what the LCET panel called a “rigorous and independent” investigation by an outside law firm into CAH’s failed boardroom coup in September of that year. CAH briefly served as nChain CEO until his own dismissal following the abortive coup. [Disclosure: CoinGeek’s owner is an nChain shareholder.]
The failed coup followed CAH’s release of a ‘whistleblowing’ document containing false allegations of fraud that were ultimately rejected by nChain’s board of directors. Their initial plan thwarted, CAH and his minions staged an after-hours raid on nChain’s offices that involved attempts at disabling security cameras, shredding documents and breaking into nChain’s server room in an apparent bid to copy/steal sensitive company data.
Following their dismissal, Brookes and Moody filed protests...
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