By Toby Porter
O’Sullivan in November 2024 flagged that internal accounts valued plots of undeveloped land at hundreds of millions of pounds more than independent estimates.
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Battersea Power Station Development Company (BPSD), valued at 6.5 billion, has now filed a case this week against O’Sullivan, who had been sacked just a year into the job. Details of the claim relate to “confidential information”, according to the case filing, says a report in the Irish Independent.
O’Sullivan had been suspended days after King Charles visited the site in December 2024 and in May 2025 he was fired by BPSD, a Malaysian consortium which in 2012 bought the site, decommissioned in 1983, out of bankruptcy, paying 400million.
He has since alleged in an employment tribunal claim, said to be one of the country’s “most valuable whistleblowing claims”, that he was ousted in retaliation for blowing the whistle on financial misreporting that gave a false picture to investors and the public.
Those allegations have been strongly rejected by BPSD, which has claimed that O’Sullivan was fired in May 2025 for a lack of strategic leadership, coupled with allegations of misconduct.
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