Internet gambling sites owners charged with fraud (Reuters)

Friday, April 15, 2011 12:01 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The owners of threesome of the maximal cyberspace poker companies operative in the United States were accused on Friday of tricking regulators and banks into processing zillions of dollars of banned cyberspace recreation proceeds.

Eleven grouping including the owners of Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and PokerStars were live with violating U.S. anti-Internet recreation laws, according to charges filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

The charges are conception of a crackdown on cyberspace recreation in the United States, where it has been banned since 2006.

In March, Wynn Resorts Ltd said that it had entered into a partnership with PokerStars, and that they would work for passage of U.S. legislation that would delimitate banned cyberspace gambling.

(Reporting by Basil Katz)


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