A major Australian poker machine manufacturer has kept its shareholders in the dark about an offshore criminal investigation into its chief executive despite its board knowing about the matter for four years.
Harald Neumann, the chief executive of Ainsworth Game Technology since 2021, has been under investigation in Austria since 2019 over a range of allegations related to his time leading a family-owned gaming firm known as Novomatic. He denies any wrongdoing.
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