Poker site cheating players should have around 440 million U.S. dollars

Poker site cheating players should have around 440 million U.S. dollars

The operator of the poker site Full Tilt Poker will have deceived their users from April 2007 to April 2011 around 440 million U.S. dollars. This emerges from a just-published supplements  of the U.S. Attorney's Office court proceedings against the games of chance in a New York court. This will more apparent from the background which has led to Full Tilt Poker since April this year in the U.S. is no longer officially available. The site is also the end of June at the request of U.S. prosecutors their gambling license from the British Channel Island of Alderney lost.

The Full-Tilt-board, among them Howard Lederer, and Christopher Ferguson at least two in the U.S. known professional poker players, its registered users to online services have assured that their deposits are safe and available anytime. In fact, the deposits were not insured so that all users would have to be paid at the same time. Instead, the Board has operated in the money. In the eyes of the New York State Attorney Preet Bharara a kind of pyramid scheme under the guise of a poker platform.

Until now, prosecutors had accused of Full Tilt Poker, especially bank fraud and money laundering. Although the site is still accessible from Germany, but poker is not about the deal possible. In a communication by the end of August puts it, the U.S. government had confiscated 115 million U.S. dollars of the money players from U.S. banks. In addition, one of the payment processor had stolen 42 million dollars on Full Tilt Poker. Further assured by the operator: "Although any business of this nature under the present conditions, regulatory complex, to know our players that Full Tilt Poker is fully engaged, they completely pay off and restore confidence in our company."