Antigua & Barbuda Articles Costa Rica Dominican Republic Featured Gaming Money Laundering Netherlands Antilles USAApril 30, 1998

    US government brings test case against offshore gaming operators

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    In what is being seen as a test case, the U. S. Government has charged 14 owners and managers of six sports betting companies headquartered in the Caribbean and Central America with conspiracy to transmit bets and wagers on sporting events via the Internet and telephones.
    The cases are the first federal prosecutions of sports betting over the Internet and they will be watched closely by offshore centers that have embraced gambling as a way of earning much-needed foreign currency.