Several Major Internet Gambling Websites Holders Get Charged For Their Illegal Activities

The title-holders of several of the major names in the Internet poker of the United States have been charged of scamming the regulators, the authorities and banks on Friday. The allegation made here claims that these companies have been dispensing huge sums of money through the Internet gambling earnings illegally. A total of 11 top most superior level personnel’s have controlling these online websites have been identified.

These 11 people also include the proprietors of three most influential sites. They have all been charged with for the violation of the U.S. anti-Internet gambling laws, the official filing of these documents have been led by the federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The prosecutors have also added another case of civil money laundering charges which is aimed to recover at least an estimated about of $3 billion from these lucrative companies. According to the documentations of this case it has been notified that all, or at least, most of these companies have their headquarters in foreign stations and not in the United Sates.

Effective immediately, not only the orders of arrest were given, bu the Internet domain names of all the mentioned companies has been seized already. No representative or spokesman from any of these companies was able to be contacted to comment or shed their light on this charges against their companies.

Two, out of the total eleven, of these men have been arrested till Friday, as the rest eight do not currently in the United States at present. With the exception of one official who has promised to surrender in to the law enforcement, as informed by the prosecutors.

39-year-old Raymond Bitar, who is the owner of Full Tilt Poker, 64-year-old owner of PokerStars, Isai Scheinberg, have been already charged with violation of the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act along with several other allegations. Similar charges and allegations have been registered against the owners of Absolute Poker, 31-year-old Brent Beckley, and 31-year-old Scott Tom. These charges sketch a method which these company owners had developed, along with the help of their few employees, to redirect their gambling income into online covering fake companies which would emerge as a very lawful and normal companies to the banks which making payments.

This whole dilemma is an element of a head-on crackdown against these Internet gambling doing business the United States, way back since 2006, when it was declared illegal in the country. However, several attempts have been made since then that the legislation to legalize Internet gambling to get pass, as the lawmakers suspect to gain huge sums of dollars in tax revenue from this business.