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Ayre Contests Criminal Allegations

The United State’s decision to pass an online casinos gambling ban has certainly caused a wave of unrest throughout the world. From the EU to Antigua, to Japan, many countries take issue with the country’s Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The UIGEA specifically prevents the majority of internet gambling transactions from processing through U.S. financial institutions. So now the entire situation raises a whole new question – even though the world disagrees with the U.S. online casinos gambling ban, is it still criminal activity for a gambling company to still service the U.S. market.

That question comes into play now that the Bodog Entertainment Group is applying for a UK online casinos gambling license. Some are speculating that Bodog will not pass the UK’s “fair and proper” standards for awarding and internet gambling license. Bodog has continued to openly defy the U.S.’s controversial UIGEA by offering online casinos poker to Americans.

Some in the media and the online casinos gambling industry are even going so far as to call the company’s activity in the U.S. gambling industry criminal activity. The well known CEO of Bodog, Calvin Ayre fiercely rejects those accusations, claiming that Bodog has “licenses from sovereign governments to do what we do - that's how it works on every other industry on the planet.”

The online casinos industry is still waiting to find out if the UK Gambling Commission will approve Bodog for a license. Ayre notes though that even without a UK license, the company will continue to have legal access to the UK market through its Antiguan license.