Sale is Finalizing
The Neteller online casinos payment processing company just announced that the
company has renegotiated the closing date for the sale of the company’s property
in Calgary, Canada. Neteller was previously a part of the U.S.’s battle against
internet gambling activities in the country and was forced to pay enormous sums
in fines to the U.S. government as well as to payout all existing account
balances to U.S. players. The run-in with the U.S. government cost the company
more than a hundred million in the process, in addition to forcing the company
out of the U.S. online casinos gambling industry and in search of more secure
and open internet gambling markets in other parts of the world.
As a result of exiting from the U.S. online casinos gambling market Neteller was
forced to downsize the company’s operations and shift headquarters out of
Canada. Although some of the company’s Canadian properties sold last year, the
Calgary property’s sale will not be finalized until the end of June. According
to the new details the online casinos payment processing company released, the
Leben Investment Corporation (the company buying the property) has paid a
nonrefundable deposit of CAD $1.3 million for the property, and will continue to
pay parts of the total cost of the property until the end of June, when the sale
is finalized.
Leben’s total purchase price for the property totals CAD $33.5 million, and the
small payments over the coming two months will be deducted from the total due
when final payments are received. The sale of the property was a good move for
the online casinos payment processing company considering there is no indication
that Neteller will enter the U.S. or nearby gambling markets in the near future
and was currently leasing the space. |