Gala Games Kurucuları $130M Çalınan Fonlar İçin Kornaya Kilitlendi
- Gala Games’ founders filed a lawsuit against one another in a Utah District Court on August 31.
- İki yönetici birbirlerini kurumsal israfla ve cüzdanlarından $130 milyon çalmakla suçladı.
- Wright Turston, Eric Schiermeyer'i, firma yöneticisi Thurston'ın bilgisi olmadan firmayı yönetmekle suçladı.
- Thurston has been accused of stealing $130M in a “complex web of obfuscatory transactions.”
Bir Web3 ve blockchain oyun platformu olan Gala Games'in kurucu ortakları, biri $130 milyona yakın GALA tokeninin çalındığı iddiası, diğeri ise kurumsal israf iddiasıyla iki ayrı dava üzerinde savaştı. Oyun tokenı, kurucu ortakların mahkemede kavga etmesinden sonra son birkaç saat içinde neredeyse 9% düştü.
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, iddia edilen 2021'in başlarında Thurston ve yatırım şirketi True North United Investments'ın sorumlu olduğu çalmak 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 GALA belirteçleri ona aitti.
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 dosyalanmış 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.”