Thursday, June 20, 2024

Policing Minister's Wife in legal row over Claims of Corporate Espionage

A leading businesswoman who is married to the policing minister, Chris Philp, has been reported to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) by a former employer and is being sued in the high court over allegations of corporate espionage.

Elizabeth Philp, 40, whose husband has called for "zero tolerance" to all crime, is accused of data handling offences and unlawfully using "confidential information" from her former employer to set up a rival business.

She denies the allegations and is countersuing her former employer, which she accuses of cyber-attacking the website of the company she subsequently founded. more