Copenhagen Wolves' CS:GO division have accused former team manager Johnathan "Mini" Daniels of stealing $18,000 from the team's ESL One Cologne sticker earnings.

A former manager of Reason Gaming, Daniels was brought in by CPH Wolves to handle the team's day to day affairs, and he was eventually tasked with being the liaison with Valve regarding the stickers for ESL One Cologne.

According to team captain Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander, Daniels was the only one who could cash out the team's sticker earnings, having been the one who uploaded the images to the Steam Workshop.

mini allegedly took $18,000 of the team's sticker money

Due to the team's roster swaps in the wake of the German event, the players' focus was on rebuilding the squad rather than collecting the proceeds from the sticker sale, but shortly before ESWC, Daniels went completely off the grid.

"It came as a shock to me when Pimp called me 2 hours before take-off to ESWC and told me that Johnathan "Mini" Daniels had disappeared," Rossander told HLTV.org. "He had erased every one of his Steam friends, closed his Facebook account and whenever anyone tried to call him he would block the number. "I did everything I could to get a hold on him, and at the airport I called him from my girlfriend's phone, and he picked up. "When he heard my voice his phone “suddenly” stopped working, and he said he could not hear me and hung up. At this moment I realized that he had stolen our money, and I had no clue what to do."

Each player on the team that attended ESL One Cologne was owed approximately $8,500, which means that Daniels had seemingly run off with almost $50,000.

After CPH Wolves' chiefs contacted Daniels, he then called gla1ve and promised to wire the money that was owed to the players and justified his actions with the fact that he was angry at not being able to attend ESWC with the team.

"On Wednesday, me and everyone else had $4,900 in their accounts, so mini had kept $3,600 from every player, which means he had stolen $18,000 from the team," Rossander continued. "We tried calling him after this, but no one has had any luck getting in contact with him. We again found him on Facebook with his new alias "John Parsonson", but this account has since ben erased by him. "We have tried everything, from contacting his family to calling him on his home number, but without any luck. Last thing we heard was from his own mother, she told us that Johnathan "Mini" Daniels wasn’t available at the moment, since he was on a vacation. "At least we now know what he spend the money on, I guess. We have no idea how to take it from here, but we haven not totally given up yet!."

The news will certainly fuel the debate of how the money that teams make from Valve's major events should be handled. Since no contracts were signed and Daniels was the link between the team and Valve, it seems very unlikely that a case could hold in a court of law.

Below you can find gla1ve's statement in full: