GodLike Esports co-owner Chetan “Kronten” Chandgude has filed an FIR against a Team Apex Gaming (TAG) manager he previously accused of spying on GodLike. He also played two recordings on a live stream that he says back up his account of Jonathan’s exit. In the 72-minute stream on his Kronten Gaming YouTube channel on Saturday evening, he claimed that he gave Jonathan ₹2 crore to buy a home soon after he joined GodLike. He said he also arranged a 4BHK flat in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, at a below-market rate through a builder. TalkEsport has not seen the FIR, and Jonathan, TAG and the manager have not issued a formal response to the new claims.
The stream follows through on what Kronten promised a week earlier. In his first broadcast on 7 November, he said an FIR had been registered without saying against whom, as TalkEsport reported in its breakdown of that stream. He also called an unnamed manager a “spy” inside GodLike, and said he would play a recording of a Christmas call about a “50-50” split “when the time comes”. Jonathan has since called the earlier allegations “completely wrong”. According to Indian esports insiders, the manager named in the FIR is now part of TAG, as are former GodLike player Hades and creator Sharkshe.
Kronten’s Christmas recording centres on a demand for half of GodLike
The longer of the two recordings runs to about 13 minutes and is dated 25 December 2025, in the early hours of the morning in Kharghar. Kronten said he had called Jonathan to wish him a happy Christmas after two to three months without contact. Jonathan’s father returned the call, and Kronten said someone with him recorded it for safety. On the recording, Kronten tells the father that Jonathan’s 33% stake in GodLike is not going anywhere. He then offers to raise it to 50% if he is repaid for the four years of funding he says he put in.
The two men then disagree about who owns the company. According to the recording, Jonathan’s father argues that GodLike would have four partners, while Kronten insists that the partners are Jonathan, co-owner Amar and himself. Kronten also warns that he will make the split public if the dispute escalates. At one point the father defends his son’s value to the organisation. “What Jonathan did, nobody else can do,” he says.
Kronten used the rest of the segment to dispute the idea that Jonathan carried GodLike. He claimed that Jonathan’s salary rose steadily over three years, from the ₹80,000 a month he said Jonathan was paid on joining, and that he also provided the ₹2 crore and the Kharghar flat. He said Jonathan had taken about ₹70 lakh from him in total, including interest, that GodLike is still loss-making, and that he is willing to share bank statements. He dismissed reports of ₹100 crore brand deals, and claimed that Jonathan never followed GodLike or Amar on social media, mentioned the organisation in his bio or wore its jersey at events.
Hades’s recording describes a meeting in Goa and a leaked phone number
The second recording features Hades, and Kronten said it was made with his permission. In it, Hades describes a conversation outside the Marriott hotel in Goa. He claims someone there said, “We have access to everything”, and added that “Johnny is with us too”. The speaker is not named in the clips that have circulated, and TalkEsport cannot verify the conversation.
Hades’s account then turns to his own time abroad. He says that when he was in trouble outside India, he contacted only two people, one of them the manager. The next day, he claims, his phone number reached Sharkshe and then leaked widely. Kronten added that Hades had promised to support him publicly after returning to India, but switched sides once his money problems were settled. Sharkshe has not responded publicly to the claim.
Kronten’s sharpest words were again aimed at the manager. According to Hades, the manager first handled execution work at GodLike, including shoots, stream set-ups and brand data, before being made a manager and introducing himself as Jonathan’s manager. Kronten alleged that the manager stayed with Jonathan around the clock, monitored his plans and checked whether Hades was in contact with him. He also claimed that the manager visited Jonathan’s family every two days, and on one occasion asked them not to tell Kronten about the visit.
Kronten’s evidence has not been tested outside his own stream
An FIR records a complaint and starts a police inquiry, and it is not a finding of wrongdoing. Kronten has not published the FIR itself, and the recordings were played without their full context, so TalkEsport cannot confirm when or how they were made. Clips of Jonathan reacting on his own stream circulated afterwards, although neither he nor TAG has addressed the FIR or the money claims in a statement. GodLike and Team Apex Gaming have not commented on their official accounts.
The same stream has already pulled in a third organisation. Kronten claimed that Scout owns only 2 to 5% of RNTX, which RNTX co-owner Rohit Jagasia rejected, saying Scout owns half of the organisation. The wider row is exactly the kind of livestream-led dispute that TalkEsport argued Indian esports needs a referee for. Claims and counter-claims are being aired on stream long before any of them reach a court or a regulator.
Away from the dispute, Jonathan is still competing. He plays as an assaulter in TAG’s BGMI line-up at the Chennai Esports Global Championship 2026, where Group Stage 2 ends on 16 November. Kronten said on his first stream that more material would become public within about 20 days of 7 November.
