The directors for Petroleum Geo-Services Incorporated, Houston, Harris County Texas, USA are: Jon Erik Reinhardsen, Christin Steen-Nilsen, and Gottfred Langseth.
15375 Memorial Dr, Ste. 100, Houston, TX, 77049-4138
PGS Exploration (UK) Limited [PGSUK] Bypassed / Breached contractual commitments governed by the Laws of England. PGS ASA /PGSUK has NEVER TAKEN ANY ACTION on a civil breach of contractual confidentiality terms and conditions that provide parties with avenues of redress for disparaging publications. These contracts are governed by the Laws of England that provide WHISTLEBLOWER protections through the Public Interests Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA). As Late as 16 July 2018, PGS ASA / PGSUK referenced terms and conditions of a termination settlement contract signed 5 December 2013 between PGSUK and SDK, yet never cited specific breaches. Instead, PGS ASA took action using the Thai Criminal Justice system in September 2018?
Original Employment Contract, 27 September 2010, Governed by the Laws of England, References Confidentiality Terms to Protect PGS ASA from DisparagingPublications
Termination Settlement Contract Signed 5 December 2013
2018 GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR) Refusal to Respond
The 2018 SAR that SDK submitted requested PGS ASA comment regarding any processing with regard to my publications AFTER THE 2014 SAR. The response by PGS ASA / PGS UK Head of Legal, John Francas, on behalf of PGS ASA, misrepresents PGS and SDK data protection history. Another SAR was submitted in 2016 through PGS ASA Compliance. Rune O Pedersen was PGS ASA General Counsel at the time. Pedersen was provided with several published whistleblowing articles which also claimed PGS ASA executive and board of directors non-compliant and criminal behavior. These e-mails were forwarded to PGS ASA Data Protection Officer, Daphne Bjerke,with the 2018 SAR for consideration.
PGS ASA continued to contend that the 5 December 2013 termination settlement contract (TSC) is still valid as late as 16 July 2018. Many of my articles had contended that the TSC was a fraudulent instrument supported by forged documents. In September 2018, less than two (2) months later and over three (3) years after my first online published whistleblowing post, PGS decides to forward a claim citing Thai criminal law? How can the data subject and former employee notbe in breach of the TSC but be in violation of criminal defamation in Thailand?
PGS Exploration (UK) Limited (England) Company Directors and Head of Legal’s Selected Contract Jurisdictions are both the Kingdom of Thailand and Harris County, Texas, USA. Not England?
The directors who proffered the contract with two legal jurisdictions for PGS Exploration (UK) Limited, Weybridge, England, are: Rune O. Pedersen, Christin Steen-Nilsen, and Gottfred Langseth. Former Secretary and PGS UK Head of Legal, Carl Richards signed a similar contract.PGS Exploration (UK) Limited, Weybridge, England original employment contract was governed by the laws of England and confidentiality terms and conditions included provisions for whistleblowing through the Public Interests Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) which is a legal requirement for English contracts. Contract terms and conditions that gag parties are voidable under English law (PIDA 43J).The PGS Exploration (UK) Limited Legal Contract Jurisdictions are both the Kingdom of Thailand and Harris County, Texas, USA
Unconscionable conduct is also found in acts of FRAUD and deceit, where the deliberate MISREPRESENTATION of fact deprives someone of a valuable possession. Whenever someone takes unconscionable advantage of another person, the action may be treated as criminal fraud or the civil action of deceit.
According to PGS ASA Legal Compliance and Global Human Resources (HR), there is NO PROBLEM with processing unsigned and unverified personal data?
The data subject contends the personal data IS FAKE and PGS ASA cannot proveotherwise!
Why did PGS ASA Human Resources, PGS ASA Legal, along with law firms Watson, Farley, & Williams and Landau, Zeffertt and Wier (LZW) [now Landau Law] fail to see a problem with processing unsigned and unverified employee records? Maybe PGS ASA bribed the other law firms to avoid accountability for illegal harassment, discrimination and defamation?
PGS ASA Fails Employment Law 101
Why did PGS ASA Human Resources, PGS ASA Legal, along with law firms Watson, Farley, & Williams and Landau, Zeffertt and Wier (LZW) [now Landau Law] fail to see a problem with processing unsigned and unverified employee records? Maybe PGS ASA bribed the other law firms to avoid accountability for illegal harassment, discrimination and defamation?
PGS ASA Compliance Saw NO PROBLEM processing Personal Data with No Subject Signature?PGS ASA Human Resources Processes High-Risk Personal Data Void of Subject Signature?PGS UK Legal saw NO PROBLEM with HR Processing Records without Subjects Signature?
The Data Subject (SK) HAS NOT SIGNED ANY DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING the Termination Settlement Contract Agreement, signed 5 December 2013.
Is this Carelessness or Fraud?
Subject SK did not work for, nor with David Nicholson, PGS UK HR Manager, the signatory of this defamatory non-compliant document. The content of this document is unsubstantiated defamatory hearsay. The content is not the derivative of compliant PGS Personnel Handbook or legal processes. The content is malicious and therefore unprivileged. The content also contradicts personal data provided officially to UK Border Agency to process a Tier 2 visa in July 2013. If this content is valid, then it means PGS defrauded UK Border Agency. In June 2013, SDK informed DN that he wanted to submit a workplace grievance citing DN, et al. non-compliant / illegal conduct. PGS management conspired to obstruct and deny my legal rights.DEMAND INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED CORRUPTION CONSPIRACY
PGS Exploration (UK) Limited is located at 4 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, England, KT13 0NY and thus is governed by the laws of England
This is Legal Contractually Protected Public Interests Disclosure under English Law
Norway’s PGS ASA is misusing the Thai criminal justice system to persecute their USA citizen crime victim and whistleblower. PGS are ignoring legal jurisdiction issues, statute of limitations issues, and fraudulent content by omission and false claims issues which make these prosecutions illegal, in my view. Beyond this, PGS does not acknowledge and investigate the whistleblowing claims reported to their compliance hotline, as their Responsibility Report and policy state. Demand that PGS stop misrepresenting to the public and investigate!
INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION Jon Erik Reinhardsen, Equinor Chairman of the board of directors & former PGS CEO Rune Olav Pedersen, PGS CEO & President
UNDERSØK KORUPUP Jon Erik Reinhardsen, Equinor Styreleder og tidligere administrerende direktør i PGS Rune Olav Pedersen, PGS ASA administrerende direktør og konsernsjef
I am not a multinational company, but I have been around the block and around the world. I understand the challenges faced in this climate. I cannot accept my narrative being defined through the tyranny of self-impressed psychopaths. I want control of my narrative.
If senior management is willing to conspire, lie, and falsify documents to deal with what should be a relatively simple problem to control or solve, had they only effectively applied their own policies and been responsible, what would keep any company from corrupting the outcome of other unfavorable health and safety or other controversial information? Should we be resigned to allow such companies to just change the rules whenever they cannot “win” on their terms?
PGS ASA Continues to Breach the Terms and Conditions of Contracts Governed by the Laws of England and Harass and Illegally Use the Thai Criminal Justice System to Silence Legal (England/Norway) Protected Public Disclosure
PGS ASA has recently reinvigorated their dubious legal
actions in Thailand to silence and disempower the accuser of PGS ASA board of
directors and executives of criminal acts through the misuse of the Thai legal
system. PGS ASA is violating my human
rights and rights under English law and contract through ignoring accusations of
executive criminal acts and whistleblowing claims. I seek to act on and protect my human rights and
rights under English law and contract to accuse perpetrators of crimes against
me and my family and seek justice. I am
further disenfranchised because I am a USA citizen who signed a contract bound
by the laws of England. PGS ASA has never
exercised on a civil breach of contract using the legal instruments at their
disposal governed by the laws of England.
The claims put forth in Thailand omit the very important reference of the
current legal relationship that exists between the plaintiffs and defendant. I believe that the many omissions of
exculpatory facts and evidence intentionally and maliciously misrepresent my publications
as criminal when they are known by the plaintiffs to be legal and protected. The claims being advanced in Thailand are
fraudulent and intended to intimidate a victim of crimes and whistleblower into
submission and silence. The claims’
cited publications are protected under English law through provisions of contracts
signed 27 September 2010 and 5 December 2013 between the plaintiffs and defendant. The non-disparagement clauses contained
within these contracts provide legal avenues of action for transgressions much
less serious than criminal defamation. Most
importantly, the cited contracts both reference the UK Public Interests
Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) which protects whistleblowing.
The legal actions forwarded by directors of PGSUK in the
Thai legal system is an overstep of the English company legal jurisdiction. English law has all the avenues of redress to
resolve the issues addressed within the Thai criminal claims fairly. If the cited contracts did not provide all pertinent
legal protections required, then what was the utility of the fore-mentioned signed
contracts including non-disparagement and jurisdiction clauses? This is more of an issue of legal contract
management incompetence or criminal cover-up and not defamation. The only victims of crimes in Thailand
(fraud, blackmail, extortion, destruction of evidence, etc.), related to the parties
of these complaints, are me and my Thai family who have been distressed and
traumatized, had their health endangered, and who have also had to find resources
(been robbed) to defend themselves against what I believe to be illegally financed
false claims. PGSUK directors hold
no bona fide legal business interests or citizenship in Thailand. They personally never visited Thailand to
even sign the resolution contracts 11 November 2018. All that was required of them was to pay a
Thai lawyer to process their illegal (under English law) actions. PGS ASA/PGSUK vindictive and malicious intent
is to persecute and harm their USA citizen accuser and his Thai family. I am married to a Thai national and we have three
(3) Thai-USA children together. We all
lived in Thailand together until recently.
These actions by PGSUK have broken our family. The Thai legal system should protect the rights
and safety of my Thai family above the rights of corrupt Norwegian executives and
directors of an English company who contract out their illegal harassment to a
Thai lawyer to avoid accountability for English crimes!
Under the rules of commercial law, an incorporated business
must follow the laws and regulations where the company was formed. PGS Exploration (UK) Limited, 4 The
Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0NY (PGSUK). According to the records held by UK Companies
House, PGSUK is registered in England. The Companies
Act 2006 forms the primary source of UK company law. A director of a UK company must
(a) act in accordance with the company’s constitution, and (b) only exercise
powers for the purposes for which they are conferred. The litigation initiated against me in Thai
(criminal) legal system violates provision (b) explicitly. Exclusive jurisdiction clauses, such
as the ones that was included within the cited contracts, limit disputes to the
courts of specific and defined jurisdictions. An exclusive jurisdiction clause intends
to provide certainty that parties know where they each can be sued. PGSUK directors and secretary must honor
their fiduciary obligations of law and contract based on the laws of England
first and foremost. The laws of England
must always take precedence in every business decision made by PGSUK,
especially contractual terms and conditions specifically citing legal
jurisdictions attached to legal rights, such as the General Data Protection Requirement
GDPR (formally UK Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA)) and PIDA. Directors of PGSUK do not have legal
authority to take away rights under English law and contract. The terms and conditions of the cited contracts
remain enforceable under the laws of England, as does my right to blow the
whistle.
The most disturbing document is the memo signed by Per Arild Reksnes, EVP PGS Marine Contract (now EVP Operations) and Terje Bjølseth, SVP HR. This memo is a forgery. There are several detectable problems. The Memo is addressed to my attention, but it was never received by me while I was employed with PGS.
Did David Nicholson, HR Manager accused within 20 September 2013 grievance of abuse of power, misuse of the PGS performance management system, and defamation allowed to proffer and sign a fraudulent contract to escape accountability? Nicholson is the only signator on most the documents within my personnel file which I claim are forgeries.
The evidence and reasons to support the allegations of breaches in the Code of Ethics have been written about in previous LinkedIn posts, but are grounded in conspiracy and the abuse of position used to discredit and distort my professional standing in retaliation for revealing a number of internal organization policy transgressions as well as violations in the base constructs of the Law of Contract as it pertains to employment. However, in this effort, individuals have also falsified and forged personnel file documents and deceived government compliance organizations as to their authenticity and content accuracy.
My publications began 3 July 2015 and multiple accusatory
publications were provided to PGS ASA compliance for evaluation from April –
September 2016. The UK Limitation Act
1980 limits the time for a claim of defamation of one year. The published content cited in the 2018 Thai
criminal claim surpasses one-year from its publication date. PGS ASA made a business decision to ignore
the published content for several years.
No actions referencing published content were ever taken by PGS
ASA/PGSUK with regard to disparagement or breach in the current legal agreements. Therefore, no criminal legal breach in
Thailand can be warranted nor be even possible legally. How can the defendant not be in breach for disparagement
under English law, but be guilty of criminal defamation under Thai law? The publications referenced in Thai criminal
claims have pointed out that PGS ASA have not exercised the protective clauses within
their contracts for the express reason of avoiding culpability for breaking
numerous English laws. PGS is pursuing
criminal defamation charges in Thailand which are totally ludicrous. Such defamation implies that I am knowingly
publishing untrue and damaging statements about PGS. The Thai claim references excerpts from a criminal
report submitted to UK police (Action Fraud) which I published online! Why didn’t PGS complain to the UK police? Why have the plaintiffs allowed such
publications since 3 July 2015? My
publications are evidence backed accusations of PGS ASA executive and board of
director’s violations in English law and contract, although they may in fact be
criminal violations in other countries/legal jurisdictions, as well, including
Thailand, Norway, and the USA.
Over a year ago, in September 2018, the directors and former
secretary of PGSUK delivered to me by e-mail two (2) summons’ to appear in Thai
criminal court. The summons’ were
delivered to my personal e-mail account, as well as my then registered home
address in Thailand. This was done just
as I had departed my address of record in Thailand. The e-mail address used had not ever been
provided by me to the Thai law firm representing the plaintiffs. My passport and Thai address information also
had never been provided to the Thai law firm by me. The summons’ were in the Thai language. As a US citizen, I resided in Thailand on
visa. I had not received the actual
complaint until I returned to Thailand after shortening my trip. However, the complaint was also in the Thai
language. As far as I am aware, plaintiff
Carl Richards, a lawyer licensed to practice law in England and former
secretary of PGSUK is not legally fluent in the Thai language. I am guessing that current PGS General Counsel
Lars Mysen or PGS UK Head of Legal John Francas are not legally fluent in the
Thai language either. I do not believe
the PGSUK directors and plaintiffs; former PGS General Counsel and current PGS
CEO and President Rune Olav Pedersen, PGS CFO and EVP Gottfred Langseth, and
PGS Chief Accountant Christin Steen-Nilsen are not legally fluent in the Thai
language. Nevertheless, these directors
have placed the reputation interests of a company governed by the laws of
England at the discretion of a junior Thai lawyer who is not licensed to
practice law in either England or Norway and who has no first-hand knowledge or
legal documentation to support the claims being advanced.
PGSUK and I shared an employee-employer relationship. PGSUK is a company governed by the laws of England. Those laws are written in the English
language. We communicated in English for
business. As a US citizen, I was a Tier
2 visa sponsored employee of PGSUK.
Qualifying for the Tier 2 visa was not a trivial matter. Such employment had to be requested based on
unique and/or special qualifications that were not readily available in the
local labor market. One of the
qualifications for the Tier 2 visa is
proficiency in the English language.
Would have I qualified for the Tier 2 visa based on the current contents
of my PGSUK personnel file? My Thai wife
and dependent children were also sponsored.
My employment with PGSUK ended through a termination settlement
agreement signed 5 December 2013 which I now believe is fraudulent. The claims filed in Thai criminal court
reinforce this belief, as does PGS’ silence and inaction in dealing with my online
publications and accusations. What is
certain, however, is how devastating and abusive PGS’ behavior has been toward
me and my family. The illegal
termination from employment and subsequent blacklisting impacted me. However, when PGSUK agreed to sponsor my
employment as a foreign worker, they also agreed to comply with their duty of
care contractual obligations to me as well as my spouse and dependent
children. PGS’ fraud was mean spirited
and intent on destroying the victim of their crimes professionally and
financially. Such abuse obviously robs
dependents of opportunities and places their health at risk. It is violent, cowardly and mean abuse of children. Because of this, I refuse to give-up on my
pursuit of justice. I do not believe
that cowards, liars, and cheaters who abuse children should lead companies and
people, even if the government of Norway, Equinor, and PGS do.
However, in spite of having a legal team, human resources team, and contract team, PGS has been unwilling to present definitive proof of compliance and legal behavior, even though they state to the public and to me otherwise. PGS is mostly involved in a cover-up of corrupt and illicit behavior. PGS executives have been uncooperative and silent and demonstrated no interest in resolution, but instead have ran-away from accountability.
These prose chronicle multiple infractions of corporate governance, as well as provide evidence of serious wrong-doing that should sound alarms whether true or false. Either way, the publications should prompt action and engagement. The articles have been viewed by thousands within and outside the marine geophysical sector.
First and foremost, the claims put forth in Thailand not
only ignore the statute of limitations for claims of defamation of one year in
both England and Thailand, but also ignore claims that the content is protected
whistleblowing. The principal charges
reiterated within several of my publications is that PGS ASA board and officers
uttered, and continue to utter, forged defamatory documents that support a fraudulent
contract. This fraudulent contract was used
to illegally terminate the employment of a whistleblower. PGS ASA has provided material
misrepresentations to government agencies in the United Kingdom, Norway, the United
States, and now Thailand, regarding the integrity of the personal data and
processes which I have contended to be false.
PGS ASA has made false accusations to defraud the Thai criminal justice
system. PGS ASA has omitted material
facts, withheld, and destroyed exculpatory evidence to gain advantage and to terrorize
their victim and his Thai family by using a foreign legal system. PGS ASA wants to avoid the English legal
system where executives have been accused of criminal acts. Evidence of these criminal acts had been processed
online at http://nopgs.com/ The legal actions carried out last year by
PGS ASA sought to restrict publications and unpublish evidence which support my
accusations of crimes perpetrated by PGS ASA.
My mantra has always been simple:
legal and compliant processes cannot produce illegal and non-compliant
outcomes.
The Thai criminal complaint only translated superfluous content from my online publications written in the English language to the Thai language. Certain excerpts were then highlighted and labelled as “defamation”, void of context and supporting evidence. How did the Thai lawyer/law firm, or any lawyer, including PGS UK Head of Legal, John Francas know whether the publications were defamatory? The only way for Francas and the contracted (paid) Thai lawyer/law firm to possibly know what is defamatory is if PGS had completed what I had always requested: a thorough investigation. From April 2016 – September 2016, I requested that the PGS Compliance Office (i.e., plaintiff Pedersen, et al.) to authenticate and verify the legality of the processes and documents used to process my termination settlement agreement signed 5 December 2013. The PGS Compliance Office actually published to a wide LinkedIn™ audience that they had investigated my claim. So, there should be a report ready to send off and provide to Francas and his Thai associate. (However, it would need to be translated into the Thai language first?) There is an important Memo dated 25 October 2013 and signed by Per Arild Reksnes, then PGS EVP Marine Contract and Terje Bjølseth, PGS SVP Global Human Resources. This important Memo forms the basis of my whistleblowing and criminal accusations publications. This Memo is intentionally not even referenced within the Thai Criminal Complaint. This tells me that the Thai criminal claims forwarded by PGSUK directors and Carl Richards are omitting material exculpatory evidence in their CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS. PGS ASA and the Thai lawyer knows this. Thus, such intentional misrepresentations and omission of material facts is tantamount to PGSUK falsely accusing me of criminal behavior.
The central thesis behind most every publication which
resided on nopgs.com is that PGSUK processed, and continues to process,
defamatory forged documents used to illegally terminate me from employment for
whistleblowing. No one from PGS/PGSUK
ever engaged me prior or during the delivery of the criminal complaint. All communications came from a Thai law firm. The Thai lawyer has no first-hand knowledge
of the events chronicled within my publications. From my reading of the claim, particular the
highlighted defamatory (nopgs.com) content is extracted from the following articles:
The Open Letter to Petroleum Geo-Services ASA Board of
Directors (18 June 2017) p124-128 was published over one-year prior to the claim
delivered to me in September 2018. Why
didn’t the PGS ASA directors respond to this letter? Had PGS ASA board of directors responded to
this letter truthfully and responsibly, every publication following 18 June 2017
likely would not have ever been published.
The delivered claim on behalf of PGSUK directors also cited the
ActionFraud report? Why didn’t PGSUK
contact the UK police and demand clarification and an investigation? The publications that comprised the criminal
complaint are the product of PGS ASA neglect and inaction. The fact is that one of the principal
plaintiffs, PGSUK director and PGS CEO and President Pedersen, had throughout
2016, as PGS General Counsel and Legal Compliance, been provided with many publications
that contained accusations of PGS board of directors and executive criminal
acts. Since 2016, Pedersen has never
responded to the published claims of executive criminal activity as defamatory. Neither has Pedersen ever investigated
and delivered a report exonerating PGS agents of wrong-doing, even though PGS
publicly stated otherwise. Pedersen is
participating in defrauding the Thai criminal justice system through forwarding
a knowingly false criminal complaint. Pedersen
was PGS General Counsel and legal compliance at the time of the initial
whistleblowing complaint submitted 20 September 2013. Pedersen did not comply with PGS policy and
UK law in how PGS responded to my workplace grievance. Pedersen oversaw the creation of forged
documents and confidence fraud used to process a false claim and basis for
termination:
Thai litigation Sponsor/Plaintiff PGSUK Director Rune O. Pedersen was Presented the Following Articles as Member of the PGS Compliance Hotline Team more than One-Year Prior to the Defamation Claims delivered in Thailand. The UK Limitation Act 1980 does not allow Defamation Claims for Content Published over One Year.PGSUK Intentionally Omitted Citing of this Content in the 2018 Claim.
The authentication of held data records were requested again from CH [PGS Compliance Hotline], and of course could not be provided. Without investigating and providing the source of the contents in the personnel file, along with peripheral communications, the words from the CH investigation are meaningless and only become a continuation of the fraud which began three years ago.
There are so many variations between the (false) narrative espoused and held within PGS personal data records and the narrative presented within the detailed grievance document. Anyone who had considered both of these narratives fairly, responsibly and honestly, should have easily detected and noted, and subsequently reported on, the many differences. Certainly the individuals who chaired my grievance hearing, Reksnes and Bjølseth, should have attended to this. [Reksnes and Bjølseth are (alleged) fraudsters.]
Nopgs.com first came online in August 2016. Several blog articles had been published on
the LinkedIn™
Pulse platform. During 2016, I tried to
get the attention of PGS compliance through the PGS LinkedIn™ comment
space. PGS never took any official legal
action against my publications. However,
anonymous complaints eventually got me restricted from LinkedIn™. Nopgs.com published much more content
than what the Thai criminal claims included. For a long time, I have published
allegations that the 5 December 2013 signed termination settlement agreement was
a fraudulent agreement which was illegally proffered and supported by illegal
forged documents. I was illegally
terminated for blowing the whistle in 2013.
The proffered termination settlement agreement did not comply with UK employment
law. Yet, lawyers from three firms,
including my hired counsel, cooperated in processing the false claim and uttering
forged instruments – criminal behavior. I
discovered that something very wrong had happened to me when I received the
contents being processed within my PGSUK professional personnel file. The claim filed in Thai criminal court is both
malicious and fraudulent through its omission of legally substantive material
information.
PGSUK directors comprised a complaint that omitted our
current legal relationship which is defined by an original contract of employment
(OEC) signed between me and PGSUK in 27 September 2010 and a subsequent
termination settlement contract agreement 5 December 2013 (SCA). My publications, including the 20 September
2013 submitted workplace grievance which is referenced in the SCA, cite
material breaches of the OEC by PGSUK and since have alleged that the SCA is
fraudulent and was intended to cover-up the OEC breaches and defame me for
blowing the whistle on non-compliant, unethical, and illegal acts perpetrated
by PGS/PGSUK (agents). To facilitate the
use of the fraudulent SCA, PGSUK uttered defamatory forged documents to provide
the appearance of a legal basis for the SCA.
I am both a victim of crimes and a whistleblower for publicly disclosing
such illegal actions perpetrated against me.
Very important is the fact that PGSUK and I were already constrained by
terms and conditions of contracts governed by the laws of England. Both the OEC and SCA that possessed all of the
actionable avenues of legal redress that the Thai criminal claim pursues. The OEC and SCA include actionable
Confidentiality clauses that protect parties of the contract from disparaging
each other. Disparagement is a much
lower threshold than defamation, as the truth of the public disclosure is not a
defense. However, both the OEC and SCA
by legal requirement under the laws of England include reference to the UK
Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) that protects whistleblowing. PGSUK sponsored spurious litigation in
Thailand against a whistleblower is an illegal and malicious attempt to bypass
numerous accountabilities under English law.
I published evidence that PGS was processing forged documents within, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) CEO Jon Erik Reinhardsen
Should Resign 2 (20-Sep-2015). I also published, The Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Ambush
Meeting and the Definition of Fraud (24-May-2016). I sent these articles specifically to the
PGS compliance for consideration. The
Thai claim did not reference these articles.
At this point, I believe laws of Thailand have also been broken. All publications regarding these actions by PGS/PGSUK I regard aids protected public disclosure allowed through signed legal agreements governed by English law. So, what is the Thai lawyer’s legal role and how are the legal interests of PGS/PGSUK being advanced by this litigation which I regard as illegal blackmail under the provision both Thai and English law? Corrupt PGS board and executives are doing anything possible to silence their accuser of crimes through ignoring bona fide, data supported criminal accusations and whistleblowing claims under the laws of Norway and England. PGS board and executives are abusing their power and delivering false accusations supported by fraudulent documentation into the Thai criminal justice system. John Francas and his Thai lawyer associate did not do what their legal agency requires and determine the validity of my accusations rather than silence them. All that the board and executives of PGS must do is to authenticate the processes and supporting documentation used to terminate my employment by settlement agreement signed 5 December 2013 signed by PGSUK and myself. This has always been and remains the objective of my publications. These accusations are not defamation. PGS’ criminal complaint holds no real evidence that demonstrates my claims are false either. PGS’ misuse of the Thai criminal justice system is appalling. These claims are intended to suppress the truth which is the opposite of defamation. PGS has used the Thai criminal system to take away my rights under English law to make public interest disclosures. The Thai criminal justice system has also been used to illegally destroy and unpublish evidence of PGS board of directors and executive criminality. My children are Thai citizens and I cannot allow PGS corruption to destroy the Thai system of justice. The Thai police need to investigate PGS ASA and their representative counsel for criminal acts of false criminal claims, fraud, blackmail, extortion, and destruction of evidence. I AM THE VICTIM.
Reputation management of the corporate brand and the executive team is paramount. However, in the absence of real professional integrity, silence is the best way to maintain the appearance of being reputable. Dismissing criticism simply allows employed professionals to get-on with running the company. No time for distractions. But, if there is no time for dealing with criticism, then why does the PGS CEO letter suggest that there is both time and willingness?
I have alleged PGS executives to have obstructed legally guaranteed processes, forged official records, conspired to defraud, provided material misrepresentations, breached internal policies and several UK employment and contract laws. Most of all, PGS executives have abused their positions and violated their agency responsibilities of trust and confidence and duty of care to maintain a healthy and safe workplace. Forgery and the uttering of forged instruments is criminal behavior.
The Norwegian corporate governance Code of Practiceis not enforced nor practiced in actual terms. Norway’s corruption is the byproduct of a narcissistic country that relies on a reputation of having little corruption compared to other countries. But, in truth, Norway is very corrupt, especially given its size and population distribution. Norway has an entitled executive class who direct and manage companies with little more oversight than a mythology of how things should be done. There is no other explanation for human garbage and accused criminals such as John Erik Reinhardsen, former CEO and President of PGS ASA, becoming Equinor’s Chairman of the Board.
I have the evidence to prove this, but I am being denied the opportunity to present it through both negligence and the abuse of power by those entrusted with such responsibility and authority. Corrupt and criminal power structures reward the un-professionals who do not protest and who look the other way from injustice. Even those who previously penned internal articles or hang posters in their work space extolling the importance of values and ethics in business submit to the greed of ascending in a corrupt and criminal hierarchy. It’s a disgusting hypocrisy and fall from grace to observe. This is the type of low-integrity professionals that corrupt narcissistic organizations produce, and that soiled industries and professions embrace. These un-professionals pollute and ruin the industry and the level commercial playing field. These un-professionals would rather watch the innocent die than compromise their selfish upward mobility.
Those with integrity are blacklisted out of the profession while the most evil, such as Reinhardsen, are protected and promoted. This needs to change. Reinhardsen never did his job as Petroleum Geo-Services ASA CEO and President, and he is not doing his job as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Equinor. Reinhardsen has never commented nor protested the many critical articles written about him and PGS employees even though employment contracts have non-disparagement clauses. Why not? I contend that he was a principal in a conspiracy to defraud and illegally terminate a foreign worker whistleblower.
CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF NORWAY’S CORPORATE CORRUPTION, STARTING WITH EQUINOR & PGS ASA.
Norway’s Corporate Corruption is Destroying a Law Abiding USA Family and a Country’s Reputation of Trust
PGS ASA & Carl Richards have NEVER reached-out to clarify ANY of the issues mentioned in the blog posts directly prior to delivering their Criminal Defamation Claims angainst me in Thailand. Weren’t these blackmail? This corrupt abuse of power steamrolls truth and justice. There is a time limit for defamation claims of one-year after the publication, per the UK Limitation Act. PGS ASA used the criminal court system of Thailand maliciously, and I am near certain also illegally, to silence an accuser and whistleblower over three-years following initial publications of accusations. Any “criminal” damage was self-inflicted. When will the O&G and seismic industry wake-up and say something and demand a thorough investigation? When will PGS ASA employee’s demand an investigation and stop sucking the harmful tits of corruption? Such corruption is bad for all stakeholders, especially the victims of corruption, fraud, harassment, and discrimination. Why do we allow Norway’s evil corporations to lie and deceive the O&G and Seismic industry?
ATTN: Walter Qvam, Chairman CC Directors: Daniel J. Piette, Holly Van Deursen, Carol Bell, Anne Grethe Dalanem, Morten Borge, Richard Herbert
Chairman Qvam, et al.:
The PGS board of directors and several senior managers are corrupt and have behaved immorally and criminally to the detriment of the enterprise and its stakeholders. PGS board of directors and several senior managers, including compliance officers, need to be investigated thoroughly by a third-party for corruption and fraud.
I am writing this letter in order to reiterate directly and publicly my concerns regarding the direction and management of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS).
The PGS Board of Directors, PGS Executive Management, and several other senior managers have abrogated their legal agency responsibilities to the detriment of PGS stakeholders, competitors, the marine seismic service sector, as well as the greater oil and gas (O&G) industry.
As a general rule, given the choice, most would prefer not to do business with evil and dishonest moral degenerates. Thus, the long-term business success and future of PGS is in jeopardy with the current board and executive composition of the enterprise.
Jon Erik Reinhardsen is currently the CEO and President of Norwegian marine seismic service company, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS). Reinhardsen recently (29 May 2017) announced that he will retire from PGS at the end of August 2017. Reinhardsen is not the only person who needs to retire from PGS. Reinhardsen never understood the cyclic seismic industry so much as financial instruments and legal loopholes. PGS desperately needs a solid and ethical leader and executive team who understand thoroughly the cyclic nature and technology demands of the marine seismic industry. The new CEO should also understand the importance of adhering to core values to serve all stakeholders. Ethics and values are the only stable thing in business, to which Reinhardsen pays only lip-service. It is a sad testament to the O & G industry that Reinhardsen has been picked to chair Norwegian oil company Statoil. This may be the worst decision that the Statoil board has ever made.
The image which heads this blog article is the screen capture from a Google™ Image search of PGS #Pedersen. By any standard, leadership entrusted with advancing the company, as well as its directors and management’s, reputation would not allow being associated with such imagery and accusations. Therefore, any settlement contract that is intended to end an employment relationship on fair, equitable and reasonable terms, yet allows the employer and its agents open to such public ridicule and criticism would not seem to accomplish its intended objectives. In fact, the outcome of this settlement has apparently left Norwegian marine seismic service company, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and its UK affiliate, PGS Exploration (UK) Limited (PGSUK), agents impotent in constructively resolving such an online tirade. The PGS/PGSUK legal compliance lawyer, Rune Olav Pedersen (PGS #Pedersen) is responsible for this contract and all of the online postings which it has inspired.
Having come across an article written by London employment law solicitor, Philip Landau (currently of Landau Law), in October 2013, I contacted and later engaged Landau to help me. I am a U.S. citizen who was working for PGS Exploration UK Limited [PGSUK] in Weybridge, England at the time on a Company sponsored Tier 2 Shortage Occupation List) visa. I was working in a toxic workplace and had filed a grievance citing harassment and bullying, in part, through the misuse of the PGSUK performance management system. Inclusive to the grievance was my claim that an unsubstantiated false narrative regarding my professional performance which was being forwarded by PGS managers to impugn my professional reputation. I believe that this was defamation and this was cited as well within my grievance. The only formal employment action between me and PGSUK was the grievance. There were only threats of a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) being investigated, which I qualified as harassment and bullying. The negotiations lasted nearly six-weeks from Oct-2013 to Dec-2013. I left England at the end of 2013 having signed a settlement contract facilitated by Landau and his assistant, Holly Rushton (Landau officially signed-off on the settlement). Placing so much trust and confidence in Landau was a disastrous watershed event in my life.
People with means with integrity and reputations to preserve simply would not allow such published allegations to be left unanswered. Of course, people guilty of wrong-doing also will not engage and place themselves in legal peril. According to the IT law Wiki site, confidence fraud is the reliance on another’s discretion and/or a breach in a relationship of trust resulting in financial loss. It includes a knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment.
Corrupt and criminal PGS/PGSUK agents have lied throughout all of this. They have lied to me, to UK Border, to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and to stakeholders. They have been able to lie because of Landau’s binding settlement. Corrupt PGS/PGSUK agents have such little respect for stakeholder clients, employees, and shareholders that without shame they highlight grifters like Cather as spokespeople for anti-corruption. Laughing like this only hurts. What Landau taught me about employment settlement contracts is that you cannot trust anyone.
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Norwegian company, PGS ASA, UK affiliate, PGS Exploration (UK) Limited directors Rune Olav Pedersen, Gottfred Langseth, Christin Steen-Nilsen and former secretary, Carl Richards filed criminal defamation claims against me in Thailand for content that was published on nopgs.com. They claimed that my publications were false and malicious and had damaged the reputation of PGS ASA to a criminal level. How did they let this happen?
“Ethics are never optional,” says John Levy. Unethical board behavior invariably leads to bad decisions and disastrous results. At a minimum, it risks reducing shareholder value. And too often it destroys trust.
However, as with everything, there appears to be a gray area. No pun intended of course, but this experience made me wonder how much bad news is too much? If someone comes to you for reputation management, it’s highly likely that they’re responsible for committing the sins highlighted in the SERPs [Search Engine Results Page]. If they were innocent, they’d not be at an SEO firm, but in court, filing for libel.
I now believe that the two Criminal Defamation Claims filed in Thailand by PGS Exploration (UK) Limited and Carl Richards were most likely fraudulent. PGS ASA executives Rune Olav Pedersen, PGS CEO and President; Gottfred Langseth, PGS CFO and EVP; Christin Steen-Nilsen, Chief Accountant serve as directors of PGS Exploration (UK) Limited. Carl Richards is a former secretary of PGS Exploration (UK) Limited. The question that must be answered is how competent directors could allow the situation to cause such damage? Nopgs.com was born in August 2016 following several blog publications on the LinkedIn Pulse platform. In August 2016, I was restricted from publishing on the LinkedIn Pulse platform. I sought a platform independent of misinformed gate-keepers who did not possess a knowledge of true events that I believed were being related in my blog post publications. Between April – August 2016, I had e-mailed articles, links, and content to the PGS Compliance team, which was comprised of (then) PGS General Counsel, Rune Olav Pedersen, as well as PGS SVP Global Human Resources, Terje Bjolseth. I never received any response to my many queries made through my blog post articles which I regarded as protected public disclosure, or whistleblowing. The subsequent compromise agreements proffered to stop forwarding the Thai criminal claims initiated in September 2018 – three years following the initial LinkedIn publications — by PGS ASA and Carl Richards demanded that all content residing on nopgs.com be removed because it was deemed defamatory. This included content published between July 2015 – August 2016 that had been sent to the PGS Compliance Team for comment and action.
Because of these facts, I now believe that the taking down of nopgs.com was domain theft. PGS ASA and Carl Richards falsely accused me of crimes in Thailand, but never of contractual breaches in England. Each Thai criminal claim held a possible 2-5 year prison term in Thailand. Using such threats of violence to squelch the voice of a victim of crimes and a publicly declared whistleblower is blackmail. I had committed no crimes, and PGS ASA and Carl Richards knew it. PGS ASA and Carl Richards intentionally and maliciously bypassed contractual provisions governed by the laws of England to remove protected public disclosure – whistleblowing – content by misusing the Thailand criminal justice system. Neither PGS ASA nor Carl Richards ever provided an alternative explanation to counter claims made within the blog post articles of corrupt and criminal acts perpetrated by agents of PGS ASA. I am a USA citizen who was sponsored on a Tier 2 visa and employed by PGS Exploration (UK) Limited. I believe that I was illegally terminated from employment through the use of a fraudulent settlement contract. My publications have provided substantive evidence supporting these allegations.
PGS ASA has uttered forged documents to support the fraudulent settlement contract which was proffered to avoid criminal and civil liability for contractual breaches, health and safety violations, harassment, and discrimination which were articulated within a 20 September 2013 filed grievance to PGS ASA executives. The settlement contract agreement signed on 5 December 2013 which terminated my employment contained Confidentiality (non-disparagement) clauses precisely to protect the reputation and business interests of PGS ASA (formerly Petroleum Geo-Services ASA). Yet, PGS ASA does not invoke these clauses to stop my publications in a timely manner? My first publication which identified and named PGS and its executives was published on the LinkedIn(TM) Pulse platform 3 July 2015. An American, the UK Data Protection Act, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) and the Tyranny of “Accurate Data” [3 July 2015]first publicly disclosed that PGS Exploration (UK) Limited was processing inaccurate personal data in violation of the UK Data Protection Act 1998. Nopgs.com would have never been online had PGS ASA executives responsibly enforced the terms and conditions of the original employment contract as well as the settlement contract agreement.
PGS ASA Shareholders and Employees should sue the PGS ASA Board of Directors and Executive Management for damages. Corrupt and negligent management has devalued the PGS ASA brand and all that is associated with it.
Nondisparagement agreements have been enforced in court settings at both the state and federal levels. This agreement often gets violated because its wording is vague. Further, many people don’t understand what constitutes as disparagement.
This is usually an essential section of an agreement for many businesses, due to the importance of a company’s reputation. Things like negative publicity can drive potential customers away and lead to a drop in profit. Therefore, many businesses will readily seek to enforce breaches of these clauses.
The published contents of nopgs.com when PGS ASA initiated their criminal defamation claim in THAILAND clearly states that nopgs.com promotes anti-corruption and whistleblowing. The actual nopgs.com site postings were in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE – Thai language was NEVER published on nopgs.com. Translations were provided to my hired Thai attorney in preparation of my criminal defense. Nopgs.com was taken down following my initial breach in the terms and conditions of a compromise agreement which was proffered in lieu of proceeding in criminal defense of my publications in Thailand. Nopgs.com was volutarily taken down to avoid criminal trial. I volunteered to remove content. However, I never agreed to the site being taken down completely. This was done without my consent and I believe theft. For one thing, I had broadcast the domain for sale – meaning nopgs.com belonged to me and that it had monetary value.
The published contents of nopgs.com when PGS ASA and Carl Richards initiated their criminal defamation claims in THAILAND clearly states that nopgs.com promotes anti-corruption and whistleblowing. The actual nopgs.com site postings were in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. No content was ever published in the Thai language, nor was any Thai citizen’s name or affiliation published on nopgs.com. The only named individuals on nopgs.com were agents alleged to be involved in the uttering and dissimenation of defamatory forged documents related to my termination from employment with PGS Exploration (UK) Limited. Translations (Google Translate) were only provided to my hired Thai attorney in preparation of my criminal defense. NoThai person, business, or politician was the subject of my publications on nopgs.com.
Nopgs.com was taken down following an alleged breach in the terms and conditions of a compromise agreement which was proffered in lieu of proceeding to trial in Thai Criminal Court. In November 2018, I alerted / blew the whistle to a PGS ASA customer who was negotiating a significant transaction with PGS ASA that I was being threatened with litigation in Thailand for blowing the whistle. I believed then, as I do now, that I was a victim of extortion / blackmail. Nopgs.com content was volutarily taken down to avoid criminal trial as PGS ASA and Carl Richards considered accepting the terms and conditions of the compromise agreement proffered in Thailand. All lawyers involved with this compromise agreement had been made aware of the UK Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) and Norway’s Working Environment Act (WEA) which are in place to protect whistleblowers. I volunteered to remove content and had taken nopgs.com offline during this period of consideration. (I was actually ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand for nine (9) days when nopgs.com was taken down. The criminal proceedings especially traumatized my Buddhist wife and in-laws.) However, I never agreed to nopgs.com being taken down completely. This was done without my consent and I believe was theft. For one thing, I had broadcast the domain for sale – meaning nopgs.com belonged to me and that it had monetary value. Further, the taking down of nopgs.com is not part of the terms and conditions of the compromise agreement.
The compromise agreement signed in Thailand did not provide PIDA protection, and therefore clauses restricting published content are voidable under PIDA 43J. PGS ASA and Carl Richards intentionally misused the Thai legal system to avoid the UK and Norwegian legal systems where my complaints and allegations were well grounded in documentation, as well as contract and criminal law. This is why PGS ASA and Carl Richards, as well as other co-conspirators involved in forming the signed 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement which terminated my employment, do not invoke the terms and conditions for confidentiality and non-disparagement. Valid contracts construed under the laws of England provide whistleblower protection. Invoking the terms and conditions of the signed 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement for breaches would also require PGS ASA and Carl Richards to address the salient issues leading to its proffering and also the supporting documentation. I have long contended that the supporting documentation being processed within my PGS Exploration (UK) Limited personnel file is comprised of inaccurate and defamatory forged documents which render the 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement to be an illegal contract. I believe that the 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement was proffered to conceal criminal and civil wrong-doing. I also believe that my representative counsel/solicitor Philip Landau was bribed to process the forged documents and illegal contract. My online publications on nopgs.com substantiated my claims of criminal wrong-doing by PGS ASA and Carl Richards with documentation. Regardless, in the final analysis, any damages to PGS ASA and Carl Richards’ reputations could have and should have been addressed in the English legal system referencing the 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement and not in the Thai legal system – thus BLACKMAIL.
I first published online content critical of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) management 3 July 2015. This could have been a breach in the non-disparagement clauses within the signed 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement. However, the reason for publishing my concerns was because I had already brought-up many substantive concerns regarding the integrity of the personal data that PGS ASA was processing about me. I wrote a series of e-mails to PGS ASA human resources (HR) personal data processors challenging the fidelity and legality of that data from 16 October 2014 through 22 December 2014. I also wrote several e-mails to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about my concerns. I provided ICO with much of the same e-mail evidence that countered the narrative preserved within my personnel file contents as unsigned and unauthenticated documents. In fact, PGS ASA initially threatened legal action against me within a 22 December 2014 letter demanding that I stop probing. Within the 22 December 2014 letter, PGS ASA offered to “solve” my complaints through including one of the more substantial e-mail’s written on 5 December 2014. The 5 December 2014 e-mail pointed out the many factual annd defamatory discrpencies in the personal data being processed by PGS ASA. The 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement was/is an illegal instrument which was intended to block legitimate civil and criminal proceedings against PGS ASA / PGS Exploration (UK) Limited. All the lawyers and human resources personnel involved with the negotiating and processing of the 5 December 2013 settlement contract agreement know that it is not a legal instrument. I have believed for some time that I was a victim of crimes perpetrated by PGS ASA. I submitted my first criminal complaint to UK ActionFraud (police) on 24 August 2014. The dysfunctional criminal justice system of the UK cannot discern that narcissistic / psychopathic criminals are adept liars or contemplate that a fake settlement contract was employed to escape criminal and civil liability. The police refuse to ask the most basic questions. No wonder so much (90%) of cimes in the UK go uninvestigated and punished! UK citizen’s should be more outraged than I am!
PGS ASA General Counsel and Legal Compliance at the time of the settlement contract agreement signing was none other than current (alleged criminal) PGS ASA CEO and President, Rune Olav Pedersen! Lawyer Carl Richards was appointed PGS Exploration (UK) Limited Secretary 13 September 2013 to prepare for the conspiracy to defraud a foreign worker whistleblower. I believe that operatives in the legal firm Watson, Farley, and Williams, notably Rhodri Thomas, were bribed to process an illegal settlement contract under false pretenses supported by defamatory forged documents along with my hired solicitor, Philip Landau and his associate Holly Rushton. PGS ASA HR personnel must understand that unsigned and unverified documents would not withstand true legal scrutiny in a legitimate court of law. The perpetrators need only to remain silent and take no action to get away with their fraud. The criminal claims put forward in Thailand, which I believe were illegitimate, were a high risk move intended to scare their victim into silence. It didn’t work. I have now breached every contract PGS ASA has formed because I am fully confident that PGS ASA is illegally processing – uttering forged documents created to defame, blacklist, and defraud a victim of their crimes. If the 5 December 2013 signed settlement agreement were a valid legal instrument, then why has PGS Exploration (UK) Limited not invoked its non-disparagement protections? Similarly, if the two compromise agreements signed in Thailand are valid legal instruments, then why can’t PGS lawyers elaborate on how their litigation in Thailand is legal and compliant and also demonstrate that legal processes and documents were processed for my termination of employment? PGS Exploration (UK) Limited refuse to answer or address the concerns brought-up in the 5 December 2014 e-mail challenging the integrity of the data being processed in my name. In other words, PGS Exploration (UK) Limited is running from the truth. This is the opposite of defamation.
I worked in England for 36 months on a Tier 2 visa, eligible through the Shortage Occupation List where companies must specifically require and request foreign expertise where there is no resident eligible candidates. I left England at the end of 2013 shortly after having our family visa’s renewed. Therefore, DPA applies to my personal data processed in the UK. The sixth principle of the DPA gives rights to the individual in respect of personal data the organization holds about them. Toward the end of 2014, I learned more about DPA and submitted a subject access request (SAR) to my former employer to find out what data was being held about me.
Most data controllers are inclined to process subject data reasonably. It would not be fair to suggest that how my personal data was processed is common or reflective of normal business practices. For this reason, I believe it is imperative that the data controller and processors involved with my personal data be specifically identified. My employer was PGS Exploration UK Limited, which is an affiliate of the Norwegian company, Petroleum Geo-Services. For the record, Norway adheres to their version of the EU Directive which is similar to the DPA, the Personal Data Act. In my daily work in England, I interacted and communicated with the main office in Norway frequently. I was employed as a Contract Sales Supervisor for the Marine Contract division, Africa region. My boss in England was Edward Von Abendorff, VP Marine Contract Sales Africa. His boss is Simon Cather, Regional President for Africa. The main processor for my SAR was David Nicholson, Human Resource Manager. I also communicated with individuals based in Norway: Per Arild Reksnes, Executive Vice President of Marine Contract, Terje Bjølseth, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, and John Greenway, Senior Vice President, Marine Contract with respect to my processed data.
I am not a multinational company, but I have been around the block and around the world. I understand the challenges faced in this climate. I cannot accept my narrative being defined through the tyranny of self-impressed psychopaths. I want control of my narrative. I know what I have done for the past fourteen years and before. For most data subjects the issue is data accuracy, not damages that meet some subjective legal definition. Falsification is damaging, plain and simple. It is clear to me that values and performance are interpreted much differently. This is why any relationship ends and mature people move on. However, this is difficult to do when those on the other side of the relationship team-up and work in the shadows like vampires scared of the light of day. Instead, they chose to maintain secret files avoiding confrontation that would require them to defend their objectives and actions. The Founding Fathers of the U.S. were endowed with the courage to challenge tyranny because while they feared the abuse of power, they feared the submission to it even more. I call on their spirit. I am American, and this is MY Independence Day.
From April – August 2016, I attempted to contact PGS Compliance Hotline members many times and even forwarded links and posts directly to PGS Compliance Hotline members, including Rune Olav Pedersen. I never received any response regarding my publications from the PGS Compliance Hotline members. However, the litigation in Thailand forwarded by PGS Exploration (UK) Limited directors, Rune Olav Pedersen, Gottfred Langseth, Christin Steen-Nilsen and former secretary, Carl Richards, sought to remove ALL content, even content which had been published for over a year and only mentioned their names, regardless of context. PGS ASA has no interest in the truth. The truth is that I am a victim of now multiple crimes perpetrated through a dysfunctional criminal justice system that overlooks white collar crimes and contributes to the destruction of honest law abiding citizens, as many whistleblowers often are. It is a travesty and injustice! Demand that white collar criminals are investigated and adjudicated. Criminals need to be punished, not their accusers!
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Lawyer Carl Richards refuses to answer simple legal questions, but will file a criminal claim outside his jurisdiction
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Carl Richards threatened legal action in THAILAND against me for my posts which I regard as protected public disclosure – or whistleblowing. Carl Richards, as Secretary of PGS Exploration (UK) Limited, Weybridge, England, KT13 0NY, never addressed the salient issues as to how forged and defamatory documents were created and processed to affect my termination from employment following my raising a workplace grievance identifying and alleging executive misconduct, health-harming workplace mobbing, discrimination, harassment, and bullying in the workplace that violated PGS UK policy and UK employment law. My employment contract was governed by the laws of England and contained Confidentiality clauses to protect the reputation of PGS ASA and its affiliates and agents. It also provided whistleblower protection. I contend that Carl Richards was a principal in committing illegal and violent acts against me and my family. Richards does not seek the truth, but to silence his accuser through extortion, blackmail and misusing the Thailand criminal justice system. He has the full support of the corrupt PGS ASA board of directors and executives. What he does not have is truth on his side! Demand police investigation of violent health and safety violations, fraud, forgery, perverting the course of justice, bribery, embezzlement and a host of other infractions. Carl Richards must be held accountable and the truth must be revealed!Termination Settlement Contract Agreement (SCA) Proffered by PGS Exploration UK Limited and signed on 5 December 2013 Excerpt Compromise Agreement signed 8 November 2018 to stop the criminal defamation trial proceedings in Thailand brought forth by Carl Richards, former PGS Exploration UK Limited secretary and PGS UK Head of Legal. Carl Richards was secretary when the 5 December 2013 Settlement Contract Agreement was executed. The 5 December 2013 Settlement Contract Agreement referenced the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) whistleblower protections. The Compromise Agreement signed in Thailand does not offer such protection and therefore according to PIDA such “gagging” terms and conditions are voidable. Carl Richards knew this, but advanced such a claim to intimidate his accuser.
Compromise Agreement signed 8 November 2018 to stop the criminal defamation trial proceedings in Thailand brought forth by PGS Exploration UK Limited. The directors for PGS Exploration UK Limited are: Rune O. Pedersen, PGS CEO; Gottfred Langseth, PGS CFO; and Christin Steen-Nilsen, PGS Chief Accountant. Langseth and Steen-Nilsen were directors when the 5 December 2013 Termination Settlement Contract Agreement was executed. Pedersen was PGS General Counsel and Legal Compliance 5 December 2013. The 5 December 2013 Settlement Contract Agreement referenced the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) whistleblower protections. The Compromise Agreement signed in Thailand does not offer such protection and therefore according to PIDA such “gagging” terms and conditions are voidable. Carl Richards knew this, but advanced such a claim to intimidate his accuser.
Know PGS ASA Gallery Per Arild Reksnes, PGS ASA EVP Operations has never disputed nor commented on the 25 October 2013 Memo that I contend is a forgery used to support a fraudulent contract and illegal termination from employment for blowing the whistle on PGS ASA management corruption. Explain this Memo, Per Arild Reksnes. It is a human rights abuse and criminal violation to fabricate personal data. I believe that you should be in prison, along with your CEO, Rune Olav Pedersen, CFO, Gottfred Langseth, Chief Accountant, Christin Steen-Nilsen, EVP Berit Osnes, former PGS UK Head of Legal, Carl Richards, and your co-signator, SVP HR, Terje Bjolseth. Justice for your crimes will catch up with you all down eventually.Know PGS ASA Gallery Gottfred Langseth, PGS ASA CFO & EVP has never disputed nor commented on any of the numerous blog post articles that include substantive evidence of PGS ASA corruption and fraud. I allege that Langseth has been a co-conspirator in fraud and the uttering of forged documents used to support a fraudulent contract and illegal termination from employment for blowing the whistle on PGS ASA management corruption. It is a human rights abuse and criminal violation to fabricate personal data. I believe that you should be in prison, along with your CEO, Rune Olav Pedersen, Christin Steen-Nilsen, EVP Berit Osnes, former PGS UK Head of Legal, Carl Richards, and the signators of a forged 25 October 2013 Memo, EVP Per Arild Reksnes, and SVP HR, Terje Bjolseth. Justice for your crimes will catch up with you all down eventually. Truth and justice has patience.
Why would a defamed UK company and agents rely on the Thai legal system and not the Confidentiality Terms and Conditions of contracts that they were party to and are governed by the laws of England? Is such litigation legal and compliant?
PGS Exploration UK Limited, Weybridge, England, KT13 0NY will engage a Thai law firm and translate content but not actually answer questions or voice concerns in English.
Philip Landau has never commented, complained nor disputed the claims made within my blog post articles directly. Why not? Landau has my contact details. Similarly, no agent of PGS ASA has ever commented, complained nor disputed the claims made within my blog post articles directly. PGS ASA wants my content depublished. Period. They have never even attempted to correct the information since July 2015. Why not?
Current PGS Exploration UK Limited directors: Rune O. Pedersen, PGS ASA CEO; Gottfred Langseth, PGS ASA CFO; Christin Steen-Nilson, PGS ASA Chief Accountant, or former secretaries Carl Richards and Candida Pinto had never taken any action until filing criminal defamation claims against me in Thailand. Their claims are without basis and believed to be extortion intended to silence a victim of their crimes. What is untrue?
Current PGS UK Head of Legal, John Francas, and PGS ASA General Counsel, Lars Mysen, helped forward the claims in Thailand. However, these lawyers refuse to state if the litigation in Thailand was legal under English Law.
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Currently, fraud is an easy crime to get away with. This needs to end. Crime shouldn’t ‘pay.’ It undermines the concept of justice and respect for the law.
Challenge corruption, deception, and make the industry more safe and fair by not doing business with opaque organizations who cannot demonstrate their core values or responsible behavior. This is the plea of all victims of crime: Justice.
All of the individual’s named within my articles have always been encouraged to tell their side of the story publicly. How did their decisions abide by core values, company policy, or common law?
PGS ASA HR employee Gareth Jones, LinkedIn Profile Information
Letter from ICO to PGS Exploration UK Limited Data Subject
Occupational Health Nurse Report of Data Subject was withheld during contract negotiations is not being processed. Is this legal?
PGS agents knowingly withholding material information during negotiations and placing the health and safety of me and my family at risk. Shameful and cowardly!
In the UK, and around the world, perpetrators of fraud escape justice due to an inept and ineffective criminal justice system with misguided strategy and priorities
