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http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...l_gambling_party_at_markham_banquet_hall.html
all connected to Platinum SB, an offshore betting site (which police say is illegal) in Costa Rica with an active client base in the GTA, police said. While the company web server is offshore, its muscle is in the GTA and southern Ontario through its biker and mob connections, police said. “What makes it local is how you collect the money,” Acting Supt. Keith Finn of the RCMP said on Monday morning. “You need to be able to back up the threats.”
Police also collected a heavy safe full of an undisclosed amount of cash as they executed nine search warrants in the GTA and London, Ont.
Police confiscated almost $2.5 million in cash and say plenty more would have been made by the organization through online bets. The ring took wagers on everything from the outcome of the game to who won the opening coin toss, police said.
all connected to Platinum SB, an offshore betting site (which police say is illegal) in Costa Rica with an active client base in the GTA, police said. While the company web server is offshore, its muscle is in the GTA and southern Ontario through its biker and mob connections, police said. “What makes it local is how you collect the money,” Acting Supt. Keith Finn of the RCMP said on Monday morning. “You need to be able to back up the threats.”
Police also collected a heavy safe full of an undisclosed amount of cash as they executed nine search warrants in the GTA and London, Ont.
Police confiscated almost $2.5 million in cash and say plenty more would have been made by the organization through online bets. The ring took wagers on everything from the outcome of the game to who won the opening coin toss, police said.
