Two former Ainsworth Game Technology executives were paid millions of dollars in bonuses by the poker machine giant’s billionaire founder shortly after he sold his stake in the business to Austria’s Novomatic in 2016.
Len Ainsworth, who had previously founded and grown Aristocrat Leisure into one of the world’s biggest gambling technology businesses, sold a 53 per cent stake in his eponymous company to Novomatic, and documents obtained by The Australian Financial Review show he went on to pay the company’s then chief executive, Danny Gladstone, $10 million.
