Los fundadores de Gala Games se pelean por $130M de fondos robados
- Gala Games’ founders filed a lawsuit against one another in a Utah District Court on August 31.
- Los dos ejecutivos se acusaron mutuamente de despilfarro corporativo y de robo de $130 millones de sus billeteras.
- Wright Turston acusó a Eric Schiermeyer de operar la empresa sin el aporte de Thurston, director de la empresa.
- Thurston has been accused of stealing $130M in a “complex web of obfuscatory transactions.”
Los cofundadores de Gala Games, una plataforma de juegos Web3 y blockchain, se han involucrado en una batalla por dos demandas separadas, una que alega el robo de cerca de $130 millones en tokens GALA y la otra que alega despilfarro corporativo. El token de juego se ha desplomado casi 9% en las últimas horas después de que los cofundadores se involucraran en una pelea en los tribunales.
It is important to note that the co-founders of Gala Games, Wright Thurston and Eric Schiermeyer, filed a lawsuit against one another on August 31 in a Utah District Court. Interestingly, the gaming firm’s CEO, Schiermeyer, presunto que a principios de 2021, Thurston y su firma de inversión, True North United Investments, fueron responsables de robando close to $130 million worth of a token tied to the gaming firm’s ecosystem.
Schiermeyer claims that Thurston moved the tokens to a wallet that was under the firm’s control, and later, the tokens were transferred to 43 other wallets by Thurston. When the CEO confronted Thurston regarding the movements, he stated that he was holding the tokens in his wallet for safety purposes.
The lawsuit pointed out that the tokens were moved from the wallets and exchanged or sold in a “complex web of obfuscatory transactions” between September 2022 and May 2023. Interestingly, the lawsuit added that Thurston first did not acknowledge the presence of the tokens, while later adding that the Fichas GALA le pertenecía.
On the other hand, Thurston is also accused of having stolen licenses to run Gala ecosystem nodes, selling the licenses, and keeping the proceeds. On the very same day, Thurston’s True North archivado a lawsuit against Schiermeyer, adding that he caused Gala to “sell off and waste millions of dollars in company assets” and lent millions of the firm’s funds to himself for personal purchases.
Interestingly, Schiermeyer is accused of operating the gaming platform without input from Thurston, who is a director at the firm, while giving incomplete or incorrect information and corporate records to Thurston “despite repeated requests.”