In the United States will judge the founder of the online casino BetOnSports

March 28 in the Dominican Republic was detained US citizen Harry Stephen Kaplan (Gary Stephen Kaplan), the founder of the British online casino BetOnSports . A US court yesterday ordered his extradition to Missouri, and soon Mr. Kaplan will have to answer on 22 counts. One of them is a violation of the prohibition to hold bets on the phone and the Internet. Kaplan is also suspected of fraud and blackmail. After his detention, the operation of the casino BetOnSports in the United States was suspended.

Last year, two more prominent dealers of the British gaming industry, also US citizens, were arrested. One of them is Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet. He was detained in New York, but soon released - after the authorities refused to extradite him to Louisiana. The other, David Carruthers, the former manager of BetOnSports PLC, is now under house arrest pending a court ruling.

At the same time, representatives of the WTO say that the United States has the right to impose restrictions on the operation of online casinos only if the latter relate to the activities of American online gaming establishments that accept bets on races. Thus, RIA Novosti reports , the actions of the American authorities are beyond their authority, and in the future this may entail the application of trade sanctions against the United States by the WTO.