On Friday, U.S. federal authorities pressed charges against the three major online poker rooms internet. Poker room PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker are accused of fraud in relation to the bank, money laundering and illegal gambling. Just issued a writ against 75-and bank accounts used by companies in online poker.

U.S. Department of Justice issued an indictment in which there are 11 defendants accused of illegal payment transactions.

For press pushed this accusation: "All the defendants are suspected of organizing a fraudulent scheme to deceive through some U.S. banks, as well as bribing others, thus providing a billionth of a profit through illegal gambling. In addition, we believe that the defendants had not only avoided by law, but did not follow his washing and making money scam with the bank. "

Assistant FBI director, Janice K. Fedarcyk said: "All the defendants, knowing that their business with American customers and banks is illegal and illegal, is still trying to fix and approve it. They lied to banks about the true nature of their business. Some even find the banks that agreed to cooperate for a fee . Defendants have assumed that successfully continue their business, but very wrong and end up losing "

It is assumed that all companies "washed" at least $ 3 billion.

And yet, instead of the usual images of sites (Pokerstars and Absolute) the user is presented posters FBI and the Department of Justice, followed by a message stating that the domain is arrested under a warrant issued by the FBI. They are followed by excerpts from the articles of U.S. law that these sites violated, inter alia: