Disco Elysium Directors Accuse ZA/UM Shareholders of Fraud as the Company Says They Were Fired for Misconduct
The Disco Elysium situation is further aggravated as former directors accuse ZA/UM’s majority shareholders of taking control of the company through fraud, and the company says these employees were fired for wrongdoing. I am confused.
In October 2022, Disco Elysium editor Martin Luiga announced that key members of ZA/UM, including lead writer and designer Robert Kurvitz, writer Helen Hindpere, and art and design lead Aleksander Rostov, had “involuntarily” joined the company. I shared that I left Later that month, Kurvitz filed a lawsuit against the company. Now we can learn a little more about his claims to ZA/UM.
Kurwitz and Rostov Moderate To share more details about the ongoing situation with ZA/UM, they are leveling some tough claims against current majority shareholder Tütreke OÜ.
Estonian Tütreke OÜ, a company of Ilmar Kompus and Tõnis Haavel, became the majority shareholder of ZA/UM after purchasing Margus Linnamae’s shares. Kurvitz and Rostov said everything was fine under Linnamee, but when Kompus and Haavel took over, everything changed.
“As soon as they became majority shareholders, we were immediately removed from our daily operations, our employment terminated, and our access to company information cut off. They got fired a few weeks later. They kept them away from us.”
Afterwards, the two continue to argue that “Tütreke OÜ must have obtained control of Zaum Studio OÜ through fraud.” They say they illegally used funds from Zaum Studio OÜ itself to become a majority stakeholder with the help of another minority shareholder named Kaur Kender.
Kurwitz, Rostov, and their lawyers face up to three years in prison for this, and Havel, who they claim to be the “mastermind,” After the 2007 incident, he committed fraud again.
ZA/UM on the other side is GamesIndustry.biz Estonian reports of mismanagement and misbehavior among “former senior employees” are true. ZA/UM did not specify names in its statement, but the news comes from Kurvitz, Hindpere, and Rostov. We are following the ongoing situation.
ZA/UM states that these employees “limit their responsibilities and commitment to work, create a toxic work environment, exhibit misconduct toward other employees, including verbal abuse and sexism, and are subject to ZA/UM’s I tried to illegally sell intellectual property.”
talk Estonian Express, Kompus described and named the toxic environment these employees allegedly fostered.
“They treated their colleagues very poorly,” Compass told Ekspress. “We had many discussions with them, but things did not improve, so the company had to fire them.” Robert [Kurvitz] is said to have been known to belittle women and co-workers in the past, which was previously unknown to the company. Myopic to. ”
A GamesIndustry.biz source said of the clash of visions between Kompus and Kurvitz that it was “a CEO plot on one side and a toxic oter on the other.”
It’s clear there’s bad blood on both sides, and only time will tell how the story unfolds.IGN will continue to update the story as it develops.
All of this surrounds the game, which gave it a 9.6/10, stating it to be “a deep, sharply written, and unique blend of noir detective fiction and traditional pen-and-paper RPGs”. Additionally, Disco Elysium – The Final Cut gave the game a Rare rating of 10/10, stating that it elevates the game from “an already phenomenal RPG to a true must-play masterpiece”.
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