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Vice President of Costa Rica: Gary Kaplan would be
extradited to US
Though he hasn't been
caught yet,
Sylvia Alvarado Marenco of
Costa Rica newspaper
Al Dia
reports that BetonSports.com founder, Gary Kaplan,
can be extradited back to the US by the Costa Rican
government. A
federal grand jury in the Eastern District of
Missouri returned a 22-count indictment charging 11
individuals and four corporations on various charges
of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. Kaplan,
the founder of BetonSports.com, was named in the
indictment along with the company itself and the
CEO, David Carruthers. Some of the marketing
people were arrested in the States.
"The extradition is
possible if they comply with the diplomatic
processes and corresponding courts, although in the
country of Costa Rica it is not illegal for a
company to take bets over the Internet, explained
the Vice President Laura Chinchilla.
Interpol reported
that they had not yet received an American request
to locate Mr. Kaplan. His location remains
unknown.
Some websites and
publications have reported that Costa Rica would not
extradite Kaplan. This is not the case,
however.
"That was never said.
Nothing has to see that the crime exist or not in
Costa Rica but rather another country that
recognizes it (crime) and that we have a covenant of
extradition, as in this case", emphasized the Vice
President.
David Carruthers,
president of BETonSPORTS, that operated in the mall
San Pedro, is prisoner in Texas since July 16,
defendant, al the same as Kaplan and other nine
people, of blackmail, fraud and tax evasion.
Chinchilla added that the State he is "worried,
therefore not a regulating framework of those
businesses exists, above all in the financial
environment, to guarantee us that not activities of
money laundering be concealed".
"Because it worries is us that we prompt the reforms
to the law of psychotropic and of casinos, (are
likely). The ball, right now, (is in the hands of)
the Assembly. The city halls also, therefore if them
do not they give permission and clear, they would
not be able to be installed in their zones".
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Gambling911.com News
Wire
Originally published July 29, 2006 1:34 am EDT |
