You have not really made it clear what the relationship between you and this person is. You have referred to an associate, and later a partner. Which is it?
Both relationships bring about fiduciary duties and this person on the face of it has no clue as to what it entails. I call people like this "morally bankrupt".
The issue of monitoring email or intercepting email at the workplace is nicely analyzed in the link below.
http://icsa.cs.up.ac.za/issa/2004/Pr...s/Full/078.pdf
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