Provided by Shariq Khan and Georgina McCartney
New York/Houston (a former senior analyst at the US trade company Freepointing Commodity, filed a claim against the company, claiming that the top executives pressed employees to facilitate the public trade and avenge the employees who contradicted the employees.
Former employee Andrew Martin, filed in the New York Federal Court in the New York Federal Court, dismissed Martin in November to stop him from an unethical practice company on the FBI’s headquarters in December.
Stamford, a company based in Connector, denied the accusations and said it had been fired by Martin for the reasons related to the results.
“We will argue with these false allegations of the employee in rejected reasons,” Freepoint said in a statement.
Freepoint still concludes a three -year suspended criminal persecution agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which it concluded in 2023. December As part of the agreement to resolve the accusations of a bribe of Brazilian officials. One of the terms of this agreement was that Freepoint strengthened the management of its companies.
In his claim, Martin says Freepoint World Oil CEO Sarathi Roy and Sophisticated product manager Shai Barnea sought to maximize Freepoint profit by marketing, asking for material, non -public information from petroleum producers and refined persons.
The court’s application also states that they distributed copyright protected material from market intelligence and research subscribers without permission.
According to the action, the events occurred both before and after the agreement with the DOJ.
Neither Barnea nor Roy responded to Reuters’ requests for comment.
The court’s lawsuit alleges that Barnea pushed Martin to use personal contacts at the Shell’s Deer Park processing factory in Texas that 2015 Would receive non -public information about the work strike. Martin worked for Shell Trading before joining FreePoint 2014.
The lawsuit states that Barnea was about to sell that information and may have been affected by gasoline prices on the US Gulf.
The deer park did not respond to the request to comment.
The court’s lawsuit alleges that Barnea also pushed Martin illegal to oil market analysis models, which he had using in his previous work Shell Trading.
According to the lawsuit, other FREEPoint employees used data and tools for previous employers, considered commercial secrets.
Shell Trading did not respond to the request to comment.
Martin’s lawsuit says he filed complaints about Roy and Barnea, who promoted unethical behavior, and in August last year raised his concern directly with Dave Messer, CEO of Freepoint.