‘We have now learned that Tütreke OÜ must have obtained control over Zaum Studio OÜ by fraud. ‘Our firing came weeks after we started asking for documents and financial data, which is still being kept from us.’ ‘As soon as they became majority shareholders, we were quickly excluded from daily operations, our employment was terminated and our access to the company’s information was shut off,’ Kurvitz and Rostov claim. In a statement released on Medium, the pair alleged that ZA/UM ousted them unlawfully after an Estonian company, Tütreke OÜ, acquired a majority shareholding in ZA/UM. Seemingly in response to this report, Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov have counter-accused ZA/UM of running fraudulently. Sources speaking to have alleged the situation is ‘not black and white’ and that there is far more to the story than first appears. It would be very short-sighted of a growing international company to tolerate such behaviour.’ Image: ZA/UM Robert is said to have been known for belittling women and co-workers in the past, but this was previously unknown to the company. Therefore, the company was forced to fire them. ‘Despite talking to them repeatedly, things did not improve. ‘They treated their co-workers very badly,’ Kompus reportedly told the Estonian Ekspress, via Google Translate. In an Estonian newspaper, Estonian Ekspress, ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus has further accused Kurvitz and shareholder Saandar Taal of ‘humiliating colleagues and intending to steal IP’ as well as ‘belittling women and co-workers’. The studio also confirmed recent reports that Robert Kurvitz, credited with the creation of the original Disco Elysium work, has initiated legal proceedings against the company – although details of this case are still unclear. According to ZA/UM, which provided a statement to, the alleged behaviours of ‘dismissed employees’ included creating a toxic work environment, ‘limited to no engagement in their responsibilities and work’, verbal abuse of other employees, gender discrimination, and illegally attempting to sell ZA/UM intellectual property.
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