In newly amended court documents filed in the High Court, Skywind is seeking to undo its £51m acquisition of In Touch Games (ITG) over a so-called ‘Super-User Code’ and alleged regulatory deception.
Owned by billionaire gaming tycoon and Playtech founder Teddy Sagi, Skywind Holdings’ lawsuit against the husband-and-wife sellers of In Touch Games includes allegations about a piece of software referred to by the claimants as the “Super-User Code”.
In a re-amended particulars of claim dated 9 May 2025, Skywind alleges that a change made to ITG’s code on 16 July 2021 meant that when designated employees deleted images of customer documents “the deletion of an image … would automatically also result in the deletion of all records of activity related to the image.”
“Accordingly,” the claim continues, “the Super User Code had the result that evidence of [fraud related to an audit carried out by RSM] was destroyed and is not available.”
The pleading further alleges that the code “was intended to facilitate and conceal improper and fraudulent activity, including in particular the RSM Audit Fraud.”
Skywind bought ITG for approximately £50.8m in June 2022. It now seeks to rescind a later settlement deed and recover up to £63.4m in payments and damages.
The new pleading also says that by giving warranties in the sale agreement, ITG’s sellers Simon Wilson, Yu-Lin Wilson and their vehicle Ruskin Properties “impliedly represented that they had reasonable grounds for believing the warranties were true”.
Colourful internal exchanges
The document reproduces some striking language attributed to Mrs. Wilson during the sale process.
In an email to her husband on 23 January 2022, she wrote: “I am willing to assist you with the sales of Intouch as you have some dishonest snakes and incompetent people working for you and I am not willing to sign anything that have been done by them.
“I do not want to be taken to court by the buyers after and having to pay the money back.”
Five days later, during a telephone call with whistle-blower Nicholas Burton, she is alleged — according to the claim — to have said: “Nick is at the police station, we are both going to prison.”
The pleading also cites a WhatsApp message sent from Simon Wilson to Burton on 30 August 2021, referring to alterations of player documents: “Jeffrey say [sic] there are notes on what is to be changed too.”
Forged files
According to the claim, Burton was enlisted over the August 2021 bank holiday weekend to review customer files ahead of an independent audit by RSM.
He allegedly discovered forged bank statements, payslips and driving licences, and reported that many “were clearly not authentic”.
Logs later showed an unusual spike of image deletions between 26 August and 10 September 2021, “with no corresponding upload and deletion entries” elsewhere in the system.
The claimants infer that the so-called ‘Super User Code’ enabled those deletions to erase their own footprints.
Burton’s 4 February 2022 whistleblower letter accused ITG of fraud. He retracted it minutes later, following what the pleading describes as a coercive encounter with Simon Wilson at a coffee shop.
What the defence says
In a 168-page re-amended defence (served prior to the latest version of the claim), Mr Wilson “denies that any fraudulent activity took place, whether as defined as the RSM Audit Fraud or at all” and insists he was unaware of any data manipulation.
He says images were “routinely and appropriately deleted” when customers uploaded illegible or irrelevant documents, and that “the concept of a ‘Super User’ is not a concept of which Mr Wilson is aware”.
On the alleged threats to Burton, the defence is blunt: “No physical threats of any kind were made by Mr Wilson to Mr Burton.”
It also notes that Burton retracted his whistleblower letter the same day it was sent.
Further, the defence also challenges Skywind’s premise that passing the RSM audit was existential to ITG’s future.
There was, it says, “no concept of ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in respect of the RSM Audit” and any deletion of documents “was of no obvious, direct benefit”.
According to the claimants, Mr. Sagi allegedly told Mr. Wilson ahead of the sale process words to the effect of: “I have a big pair of balls. I lost £300,000 in the casino last night. I will buy your business for £53m. You can sell it to other companies for more money and they will take 6 months to do due diligence.
“I will buy it in 10 days and I won’t do any due diligence and I don’t want any guarantees or warranties. I don’t even want tax warranties.”
Next steps
Skywind asks the court to declare its November 2023 rescission of the December 2022 settlement deed valid, to compel repayment of £375,000 already paid to each Wilson, and to award the damages set out above.
The Wilsons have yet to respond to the re-amended particulars of the claim.
