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Originally Posted by joehoya
Those guys are fucked. When you really think about it, what they did was an almost perfect example of money laundering. On one end of the transaction, they obviously knew it was a gambling business. On the other ende, they oviously knew they were dealing with U.S. citizens, since they had the personal info. Then, to top it off, they acknowledge all of these facts in public documents! They're DONE!
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Yea?
Money laundering?? According to who? The US? Gimme a break..
Of course they knew transactions were related to gaming. Of course they knew US citizens were involved. That is not the issue... tho the US may like it to be.
The fact is the US is violating WTO global trading treaties by inhibiting the transfer of funds to legal entities in other jurisdictions. The jury has already returned a verdict on this in 2005 and the enforcement of that WTO ruling is expected this month.
Laywers can yap all they like, but countries where domestic laws are in conflict/violation of international agreements have little ground to stand on in the bigger picture.
Even after the WTO judgement of restrictive trade practices, US lawmakers then engaged in further violation by introducing the Illegal Gambling Business Act which restricted trade even further. If a country can't keep to it's obligations internationally - that country needs to fuck off and be excluded from the benefits.
This is all posturing and pathetic attempts to play hardball and protect US the gaming industry - all crap and unwinable.