Former Swansea University academic Prof Marc Clement, who was sacked for gross conduct for not declaring an equity interest in the proposed £200m Life Sciences and Wellness Village project, received an email from then chief executive of Carmarthen County Council, Mark James, about setting up a secret trust, an employment tribunal has heard.
Mr Clement, the former dean of the university’ school of management and colleague Steve Poole were sacked for gross misconduct in 2919 following a protracted internal investigation. They both lost their subsequent appeals. They have brought an unfair dismissal case to a tribunal in Cardiff.
They deny wrongdoing in relation to the wellness village scheme in Llanelli in which the university was a partner with Carmarthenshire County Council along with the project’s development partner Sterling Health headed by Franz Dickmann. The project was shelved following the dismissals.
