Canadian pleads guilty to money laundering in US over online gambling

Tweet Nelson Burtnick, the Canadian executive who was indicted for money laundering in April 2011 in connection with his role operating the Full Tilt Poker gambling website, pleaded guilty to money laundering today. He was indicted, along with several others, for money laundering, bank fraud, and illegal gambling for disguising payments from U.S. gamblers as […]

Uncertainty over recovery of seized funds from PokerStars, Absolute Poker and Full Tilt Poker

Tweet The news on Friday that the U.S. had indicted 11 individuals associated with the operation of the Internet gambling sites PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker for violations of U.S. gambling and anti-money laundering laws and bank fraud, has raised questions about the future of the funds held by those entities on behalf […]