PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg has turned himself in to the federal government of the United States after almost 9 years of being prosecuted for fraud, money laundering and illegal Gambling.
The 73 years old businessman negotiated his surrender from Switzerland, from where he flew to the United States to face the charges against him, Poker-red.com reports.
Failure to comply with the Law on Illegal Compliance with Internet Gambling (UIGEA) adopted in 2006 by the Bush administration.
The company continued to operate in the American territory after that rule was approved. "Over time, there were companies such as partypoker that stopped operating in the United States and this allowed the red pica room to become the world leader to this day," although this means, "this decision did not come out. completely free since in 2011 what the whole community knows as 'Black Friday' took place and since then they have been persecuted by American justice. ”
Meanwhile, Isai's son, Mark Scheinberg, took the reins of the company from Black Friday, selling the company to the AMAYA GROUP three years later.
The same information indicates that, in an attempt to ingratiate himself with American justice, when the United States government confiscated the websites and funds of the main Poker Operators that continued with their activity in the United States, revealing that the main competitor PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, was insolvent and unable to pay players. With the objective of "time later, this allowed Scheinberg to work side by side with the US government to buy the American company and thus be able to return the money that many American players had lost."
A few months ago, during the stay in Switzerland, the US authorities issued an extradition request, which Scheinberg initially opposed, but finally on January 17 he took a flight to New York, where federal agents were waiting for him.
On the same day, the Israeli-Canadian was released on bail of one million dollars. For the rest, according to Olga Zverovich, the federal prosecutor in charge of the case, the two sides have been negotiating for a long time and an agreement has been reached even before the defendant stepped on American soil.
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