Former Disco Elysium staff accuse ZA/UM shareholders of fraud

Legal Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov claim that they were excluded from daily operations and terminated following new ownership Ex-ZA/UM employees Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov have made claims that the majority stake in the studio was obtained illegally. In a Medium post shared November 9 by Rostov, the pair shared that their stake in the Disco Elysium property comes from minority shareholdings in Estonian firm Zaum Studio OÜ. The majority of the shares were formerly held by investor Margue Linnamäe. In 2021, Linnamäe was bought out by another Estonian company Tütreke OÜ, which the post called a “vehicle for Ilmar Kompus and Tõnis Haavel.” “As minority shareholders our rights are limited,” the post read. “As long as Linnamäe remained the majority shareholder, we were confident that the company’s financials were in order and that all shareholders were being treated equally. “The same can not be said for Kompus and Haavel. 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. Our firing came weeks after we started asking for documents and financial data, which is still being kept from us.” The pair accuses Tütreke OÜ of obtaining control over Zaum Studio OÜ by fraud, and claimed that the money the firm used to purchase the majority stake was taken illegally from the latter. “We believe that these actions — which in our view, and the view of our lawyers, amount to criminal wrongdoing punishable by up to three years i
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