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Gary Kaplan likely to be extradited if found
A reporter for the
Costa Rica newspaper Al Dia tells Gambling911.com it
simply is not true that the Costa Rican authorities
would not extradite BetonSports.com founder Gary
Kaplan if found.
Gary Kaplan along with
10 others from BetonSports.com, including its CEO
David Carruthers, were indicted early last week for
various felonies including racketeering.
Carruthers, a British citizen, is being held without
bail in Dallas after being detained changing flights
at that city's airport.
"Our government will
abide by the US request," said the Al Dia reporter,
who has already been in touch with government
officials there. "The crimes mentioned
occurred on US soil so the Costa Rican government
would extradite him (Gary Kaplan)."
Kaplan and a handful
of others including Norman Steinberg, former CEO of
BetMill.com, remain on the lam.
Gamblers remain in the
dark after BetonSports management shut down the
website, supposedly as a means to comply with US
prosecutors orders. However, no deposits have
been returned to customers as ordered by US
officials. The company also fired its CEO on
Tuesday. The
sports betting website of beleaguered internet
gambling company BetonSports will continue to be
closed to customers until at least the end of the
month after the US Department of Justice won an
extension to its temporary restraining order against
the company.
BetonSports, which had been on a buying spree of
other online sportsbooks of late, will probably
never regain its status again as the number two
online sports betting company. It's future on
the London Stock Exchange also remains in serious
doubt. The
five-day extension, granted in the DoJ's favour,
means the company's hopes of getting the site up and
running "within a week" could now be in jeopardy.
Court documents filed at Eastern District of
Missouri reveal that the hearing for
preliminary/permanent injunction against the company
will be held at 2pm on Monday, July 31, in St Louis,
Missouri, before Judge Carol E Jackson.
On the same day, an arraignment hearing will be
held, when all defendants in custody involved in the
case, including dismissed BetonSports chief
executive David Carruthers, will have the charges
read to them.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office could not
say whether Mr Carruthers will appear at the
hearing.
Non-executive directors of BetonSports will not be
present at the injunction hearing in the US, having
left Costa Rica, where they were holding an extended
board meeting, to return to the UK.
A company spokesman said the extension to the court
order was issued because the DoJ had yet to serve
the company with documentation. He said the
extension did not change anything.
BetonSport's shares, which are quoted on the London
Stock Exchange, were suspended on July 18 at the
company's request.
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Gambling911.com News
Wire
Originally published July 28, 2006 7:46 am EDT |
