was taken into custody, but was later released and cleared of any charges, as it was found that his bank Carnegie Investment Bank had pressed Andersson into selling the shares. Sebastian Ahlskog, the company's former CFO, was convicted with insider trading charges in February 2020, and was fined approximately . However, Ahlskog was later acquitted of this conviction in appeals by September 2021. In the wake of this investigation, Starbreeze's financial situation became dire, and by May 2019 the studio's own estimates were that it lacked sufficient funds to continue operating for the next year. During this period, the studio requested two separate three-month extensions to complete its corporate restructuring. Starbreeze divested itself of several studios and games. OtherSide Entertainment bought out the publication rights for their System Shock 3 in February 2019, while Mohawk Games reacquired publishing rights for 10 Crowns in April. In May 2019, Starbreeze sold its share of Dhruva Interactive to Rockstar Games for , who subsequently merged Dhurva into its Rockstar India studio. Starbreeze laid off about 60 positions, roughly 25% of its staff, as additional cost-saving measures in June 2019. The same month, Starbreeze sold the publishing rights for Psychonauts 2 to Microsoft for . A third extension was filed and approved in September 2019, which expired by December 3, 2019. Starbreeze announced in October 2019 that to resolve their financial situation, they will split off into two new companies: New Starbreeze Publishing AB and New Starbreeze Studios AB. Most of Starbreeze's assets, principally the IP rights to Payday, will reside with the publishing arm. On the assumption that the financial settlement is accepted, the company plans on focusing on release of Payday 3 by 2022-2023 which will be its primary revenue driver. The company also began renewed development on Payday 2 to create new downloadable content, but stated that this would be for purchase, apologizing for reneging on its "forever-free-content" assurance they had made some years prior, with plans to use the revenues to help the company's finances. Starbreeze's restructuring was completed and approved by the courts by December 2019, about a year after the first financial concerns were raised. Net losses for the year of restructuring were estimated to be about . In its financial report released in February 2020 covering this restructuring, Starbreeze stated that they currently were primarily dependent on Payday 2 content sales for revenue and re-stated their intent