Two former directors and founding shareholders of Neteller, who have offices on Circular Road in Douglas,have been charged in the United States with laundering billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds.
Neteller is an on-line money transfer company, registered here.
According to the US Attorney General , the two Canadians, 46 year old Stephen Lawrence and 55 year old John Lefebvre were arrested on Monday. Lawrence was in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Lefebvre in Malibu, California.
Reuters reports that they were charged on Monday in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to transfer funds with the intent to promote illegal gambling, according to two complaints made public on Tuesday.
Money transfer companies allows gambling companies to transfer money collected from U.S. gamblers to bank accounts outside the United States.
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