Gulf axes non-compete payments

A special committee of independent directors of Gulf International Minerals (GIM-T) has decided that it will not make any post-termination payments to its recently ousted, former president and CEO, Alastair Ralston-Saul.

Earlier this year, the company agreed to pay Ralston-Saul a non-compete fee of $560,000 over two years “in order to preserve the integrity” of its corporate strategy and its investment in Tajikistan.

The special committee has now decided that such payments would be inappropriate. An investigation into unauthorized activity that took place while Ralston-Saul was CEO continues.

Ralston-Saul resigned from the company earlier this year after an external investigation found that he had misappropriated US$30,000 of company funds. The investigation also found that the former CEO had planned to take another US$1.5-million “secret profit” via a proposed acquisition. That plan was quashed and the company says Ralston-Saul admitted his “wrong-doing.”

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