The founders of three internet's largest gambling sites have been indicted and charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling.
Eleven individuals have been charged in total by the US Department of Justice with running operations that violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.
The authorities have so-far arrested three individuals, all US citizens, and are working with international law enforcement agencies to arrest a further eight US citizens and foreign nationals in connection with the charges.
The individuals face a range of charges with different prison sentences and fines, while the US is also seeking at least $3bn held by the companies.
The feds have seized five domain names and freezing 76 accounts in 14 counties.
According to New York's US Attorney's Office, the companies operated in contravention of the 2006 act on unlawful gaming.
Authorities say those indicted disguised money from US gamblers as payments to hundreds of non-existent online merchants selling items like jewelry and golf balls.
18 commentaires:
intersting
thats really hard...
i just heard about this. you explained it well! nice blog, followed!
Wow they sure dont like not getting paid tax money huh.
great post !
Shit. No more poker for us.
This is bullshit, I have money stuck there.
scam artist.
I wonder which sites are affected
I really do think as a society, financial criminals are worse than violent ones. A murder kills a person, and is caught and punished. An embezzler takes everything you've ever worked for away, and its not just you, it is entire companies worth of people losing everything.
Wow! I'm with Ambi on this, i'd like to know who's guilty
Damn what a bummer, I used to use full tilt back in the day.
Can't believe this is true! Good post
I find it interesting that the US government decides to do this when it's neck deep in financial woes.
what a bummer!
Can they actually just shut this shit down when people have money in it?
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