BP Sued by Four Ex-Workers Accused of Aiding Rival

BP Plc’s former head of commodities trading Quek Chin Thean and three other ex-employees countersued the oil company after being accused of misusing confidential information and helping BP’s rival set up a competing business.

Quek, former regional operating unit manager Clarence Chang and ex-trading manager John Foo, claim in papers filed in the Singapore High Court yesterday that they were wrongly fired and are owed an unspecified amount of money by BP. Former executive assistant Laura Kuan claims she’s owed S$379,000 ($280,000) that BP wrongfully withheld after she left.