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Gambling Group Worked with the Mob
3 Aug 2006
Bet On Sports, the gambling Internet company that has recently made so many headlines with its news of the arrest of its CEO David Carruthers, has recently had more bad news emerge from its current state of affairs. Evidently, the gambling company shared offices in Costa Rica as recently as last year with a company that US authorities claim is linked to a mob group, the Bonannos, one of New York’s five notorious mob families.
‘To the best of my knowledge, there are no links between Bet On Sports Plc post-flotation and organized crime,’ said Clive Parritt, the chairman of the gambling firm. He insisted that links with SDS, Safe Deposit Sports, which US prosecutors allege is part of a multi-million dollar illegal gambling ring controlled by one of the US’s best-known organized crime families, went no further than that of sub-tenant.
The extent of the relationship between this mob family and the gambling company is still unclear. How this will affect the current situation David Carruthers finds himself in at the moment, as well as that of the gambling site itself, will be known in the coming months. Until then, more news regarding Bet On Sports will surely filter in as time progresses, and the online gambling industry and world will be keeping a close eye on it in order to see the results of what could be a major event in this industry.
