AG Ford joins effort urging DOJ to handle unlawful offshore gaming

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is urging the DOJ to handle unlawful offshore gaming.

He joined a bipartisan multistate coalition of fifty AGs in urging the federal authorities to handle what Ford known as an unprecedented development in illicit on-line playing.

“Illegal online gaming is a danger to every jurisdiction and requires bipartisan collaboration to stop,”mentioned AG Ford. “Regulations on gaming exist to ensure the industry’s economic activity is safe and non-predatory. Nevada’s gaming industry is the envy of the world because our state has benefitted from an important and ongoing dialogue between the public and private sector. Illegal online gaming acts outside of this industry and opens up our youth and vulnerable populations to harm. I urge the DOJ to act to rein in this problem.”

Ford says the sports activities and on-line playing operations are largely operated by foreign-based corporations that usually function with out licensure, supply restricted to no shopper protections, fail to age confirm, ignore state boundaries, and evade tax obligations.

He says these platforms trigger hurt to states and residents, saying they expose customers to fraudulent schemes and encourage downside playing.

Ford and the opposite state AGs are asking the DOJ to handle the platforms by:

• Pursuing injunctive aid beneath the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act to dam entry to unlawful web sites and fee processing mechanisms associated to illicit gaming operations;
• Seizing belongings — together with servers, web sites, domains and proceeds — utilized by gaming operators that violate state and federal regulation; and
• Coordinating with states, monetary establishments and fee processors to dam illegal transactions and dismantle monetary infrastructure associated to unlawful gaming operations

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