Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @11:46PM from the not-a-dwelling-place-so-not-burglary dept.

snicho99 writes "A US owned gaming company has fled Australia, leaving unpaid employees and a massive tax bill. Apparently many staff have been working unpaid for months to allow their game to ship and hopefully the company to recover. Interzone's Perth (Western Australia) office was created with the assistance of a state government grant. Last week Interzone's (American) CEO entered the building at night and removed all the servers and IP so that Interzone could continue production at a new company they have opened in Ireland. The staff caught him on camera. More background here."

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Re:There is much more to this than the Summary sta by deniable · 2010-02-20 01:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Hate to tell you this, but I haven't seen anything about this in Perth. This is the first I've heard of it. 'Chief Treasurer' as you put it would be the Treasurer, Troy Buswell. He's also Minister for Commerce and the grant likely came from the part of DOIR that now works for him. It's a Commerce matter, not Treasury and Finance, but he's been quiet on both fronts.