The board of Fortescue Metals conducted a secret review into whether its executive chairman, Andrew Forrest, had a relationship with an employee of the mining giant but cleared him of wrongdoing.
In a statement, Fortescue said the board had engaged law firm Seyfarth Shaw to investigate after becoming “aware of an anonymous letter concerning the behaviour of the executive chairman”.
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