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Former CEO of the BetOnSports, David Carruthers was sentenced earlier this week to 33 months in prison for racketeering conspiracy in connection to BetOnSports welcoming online sports betting from American residents over the phone and Internet.

Carruthers is a British citizen who had become the CEO of BetOnSports in the year 2000. He was arrested later in July 2006 by the FBI at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Carruthers had started his journey from the U.K. to Costa Rica and had a layover in Dallas where he was then arrested. BetOnSports stopped functioning shortly after that and has not been able to reimburse its customers over $16 million.

The founder of BetOnSports Gary Kaplan was also sentenced to prison in November to 51 months for his role in founding and carrying on business in BetOnSports.

An Assistant of the US Attorney office, Steven Holtshouser stated that the prosecution and sentence of David Carruthers is substantial to the Government’s efforts made in enforcing the U.S. laws against offshore internet and phone based sports betting activities, as the convicted was both a foreign national and a top level executive of BetOnSports. Earlier to this, executives, owners and investors trusted that they were out of reach from the U.S. law enforcement; even their business proposals were directly targeted at the U.S. market. The conviction and sentence made against Carruthers should send out an alarm to any foreign operators conducting unlawful activities in the United States that location does not make it untouchable.

Special Agent in Charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation, Toni Weirauch added that the unlawful online gaming operations continue to be areas of concern for the IRS. With the law enforcement partners, IRS will continue to have an enforcement role in the unlawful gaming industry and other illegal offshore activities.