Ex-Xsolla exec files whistleblower lawsuit against payment firm over alleged financial crimes

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 30, 2023
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Xsolla, the global payment handler for game transactions, has been sued by a former accounting vice president who alleges the company mishandled $40 million.

Emil Aliyev, former vice president of global accounting at Xsolla, also alleged that the company fired him after he blew the whistle on financial crimes.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.