An education boss who sent emails joking about cocaine and strippers has been cleared of any wrongdoing after saying he was pretending to be Wolf of Wall Street character.
Tom Crombie, 40, of Edinburgh, Scotland, appeared at the High Court in London this week after being accused of 'fraudulent misrepresentation' and gross misconduct relating to his email exchanges with a senior executive.
Former schoolteacher Crombie had negotiated to sell a stake of his company My Online Schooling for £9million to Inspired Education Group, which boasts more than 90,000 students in 119 schools across 27 countries.
However, Inspired claimed 10 email exchanges between Crombie and the executive evidenced drug and alcohol use and were 'highly offensive, obscene, vulgar, racist, sexist and discriminatory'.
They said the true value of the stake should be at least halved because of this, meaning Crombie would lose at least £4.5million.
