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Arresting Online Casino Players

The United States seems to have started a startling trend in the online casino gambling industry. SportingBet has seen its fair share of arrests now that two UK employees of the internet gambling and betting company have been arrested in Turkey in conjunction with their employment at the SportingBet online gambling group. The United States passed restrictive legislation in 2006 and began to prosecute the executives at offshore online casinos. Now it looks as though the Turkish government is taking a page out of the U.S.’s book and has issued the arrest of individuals associated with the gambling companies that offer internet gambling to Turkish gamblers.

Around the time that the United States passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UGIEA), the Turkish government similarly began to crack down on online casinos operating for the Turkish market. Many online gambling companies and those associated with the industry withdrew from the Turkish internet gambling industry as they exited the U.S. market, but SportingBet chose to instead continue accepting gamblers from Turkey. Neteller on the other hand learned its lesson after paying millions in fines to the U.S. government and immediately withdrew payment processing services from Turkish players.

SportingBet though asserts that it is not operating in the wrong considering the company holds a valid online casino gambling license and operates out of the European Union. The Turkish online gambling market accounts for roughly nine percent of the company’s net gaming revenues – while that is certainly a healthy sum of money, the company is now waiting to hear what charges the SportingBet employees are facing from the Turkish government.