Основатели Gala Games борются за украденные средства на сумму $130M
- Gala Games’ founders filed a lawsuit against one another in a Utah District Court on August 31.
- Оба руководителя обвинили друг друга в корпоративных растратах и краже $130 миллионов из своих кошельков.
- Райт Терстон обвинил Эрика Ширмейера в управлении фирмой без участия Терстона, директора фирмы.
- Thurston has been accused of stealing $130M in a “complex web of obfuscatory transactions.”
Соучредители Gala Games, игровой платформы Web3 и блокчейна, вступили в битву по двум отдельным искам, в одном из которых говорится о краже токенов GALA на сумму около $130 миллионов, а в другом - о корпоративных растратах. Игровой токен рухнул почти на 9% за последние несколько часов после того, как сооснователи вступили в борьбу в суде.
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, предполагаемый что в начале 2021 года Терстон и его инвестиционная фирма True North United Investments несли ответственность за воровство 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 токены ГАЛА принадлежал ему.
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 подан 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.”