Tech boss sacked for blowing whistle on China wins payout
Ex-chief was removed after alerting MPs to an attempted coup from Beijing-owned investment firm
A tech boss who was sacked by a British microchip company for blowing the whistle on a move to China has received a multimillion-dollar payout.
Ron Black has received $2m (£1.5m) from Imagination Technologies after an employment tribunal declared he had been unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing.
Mr Black was removed as Imagination’s chief executive in 2020 after alerting MPs to an attempted “coup” in which a Chinese state-owned investment firm planned to take over the company’s board.