A tribunal heard that Commonwealth secretary general Baroness Scotland,62,allegedly grouped foreign dignitaries “like cattle” and made them watch a visit of the Queen from a “minstrels' gallery”.
It is claimed that the Labour peer introduced one of her friends to the Queen and arranged for another to brief the monarch.
Baroness Scotland has also been accused of telling staff they must each be a “mini-me”, and seeking to terminate the 15-year career of an employee she believed had crossed her.
The Baroness was also publicly rebuked by the tribunal for not turning up to give evidence.
The tribunal heard Baroness Scotland allegedly abused her position by forcing out “head of office” Ram Venuprasad, 45, without evidence, believing that he had leaked stories about her to thepress.
Ram Venuprasad claimed that he was treated as a sole suspect for the leaks but it could not be proved, hence, he was given a final written warning, and pushed out for a bogus offence of forwarding work emails to his private email.
It is further alleged that the Baroness forced Venuprasad out of his job, smeared him behind his back, and threatened to report him to the police for fraud in India and “make him unemployable”.
He said, “A Secretariat spokesperson described me to the media, on the record, as 'a profoundly disaffected individual'. This description had therefore been sanctioned, probably at the highest levels. I had been told that the Secretary General was threatening to report me to police regarding my previous employment. My career was in tatters.”
The tribunal findings will be announced at a later date.
