A Nevada federal justice has granted a temporary restraining dictate call for by Aussie sports betting operator PlayUp against the former CEO of its US arm, Dr. Laila Mintas.
PlayUp hired Mintas in early 2019 to aid it expand its business sector interests inwards the US, according to documents filed in the US District Margaret Court for the District of Nevada. The fellowship currently offers its betting services inwards New island of Jersey and Colorado.
But when it came clip to renew Mintas’s contract in November 2021, they found she drove a tough bargain.
Mintas requested a 100 percent pay growth from $500,000 per yr to $1 jillion per year, plus increased stock in the business. She also demanded the companion blast the stream Global CEO, Book of Daniel Simic, and name her to the role instead.
PlayUp sued on Nov. 30, claiming Mintas had deliberately sunk a $450 gazillion takeover call by crypto change whale FTX. That’s allegedly because PlayUp had failed to accede to her excessive salary demands.
FTX Falls Through
When her demands were not met, the case claims she approached FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The lawsuit states she said, “There is infringe within the direction of PlayUP, thither are systemic issues, and that the fellowship is not clean.”
This was during takeover negotiations, which afterwards collapsed as a unmediated result of the defendant’s actions, argues the lawsuit.
The suit also claims that Mintas threatened to hurt PlayUp’s report in response to the failure to renew her contract. Mintas said she would “burn PlayUp to the ground,” according to the royal court filing.
Mintas is a lawyer and investor who specializes inward sports data, sports betting legislation, regulation, and sports integrity. Before she was hired past PlayUp, she was lieutenant chairwoman at Sportradar. She was also antecedently director of sports integrity for the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).
Mintas Denial
District Margaret Court Judge Gloria Navarro granted PlayUp a temporary restraining order in conclusion week, pending a reply from Mintas, and scheduled a overture audition scheduled for Thursday.
The enjoin prevents Mintas from piquant “in any word form of lead or mak[ing] any statements or representations that disparage, portray inward a disconfirming light, or otherwise impair the reputation or commercial message interests of the Company or its past, lay out and time to come Subsidiaries.”
Mintas denied the allegations to SBC Americas, Tuesday.
I am a major shareholder inwards PlayUp … and invested sevener figures of my possess nest egg into the company,” Mintas said. “It makes no more signified that i would get made any of those comments that are quoted inwards the filing or tried to destruct a sell to sell PlayUp, as i would experience benefited from that as well as all other shareholders.
“All the claims mentioned inward the fillings are wrong, and my lawyers are working on filing shortly my response to those claims to narrate the dead on target story based on written evidence,” she added.