Activision, after merging with Blizzard in 2008, starting cooking the books like crazy to avoid paying taxes.
Dutch/Irish sandwich with 3 employees in NL, underreporting profits,...
They got caught and had to pay a 9 figure fine in France, as well as having to give each employee a decade worth of profit sharing (as profits were underreported) to then, 2 years later, fire everyone. Still during the Covid aftermath, after a year of record profits, due to "economic reasons".
All while having more money than they could spend.
Dutch/Irish sandwich with 3 employees in NL, underreporting profits,...
They got caught and had to pay a 9 figure fine in France, as well as having to give each employee a decade worth of profit sharing (as profits were underreported) to then, 2 years later, fire everyone. Still during the Covid aftermath, after a year of record profits, due to "economic reasons".
All while having more money than they could spend.