Casino Tropez Expands Mobile Gambling Platform

Leading Euro online casino, Casino Tropez, has announced new multi-lingual versions of their popular mobile gaming platform. Now available in Swedish and Italian, Online Casino Tropez's mobile offering now spans four different languages, including their inaugural platforms in English and Spanish.


A testament to an increasingly liberalized European online gambling sector, not to mention the mobile gaming sector itself, Casino Tropez's mobile expansion across several languages is promising news for a more universalized online casino industry as a whole. The mobile sector, whose expansion has been stunted by some regulatory setbacks in several European nations (according to the latest report by Market and Research), will certainly stand to benefit from Casino Tropez's charge in Spain and Sweden.

Sweden and Spain have especially been churning out a large number of active players in recent times, with Spain more fully opening it's doors to regulation for the first time. Tropez's recent 1 million plus jackpot on the progressive "Global Traveler" slot game was won by a player from Spain. Even online gambling eWallets are expanding into Spain. UKash is the latest eWallet to penetrate Spain, announcing last month it has signed an agreement with Telefonica to offer UKash via 70,000 telephone kiosks in Spain.

Even more recently, the Spanish region of Castilla y Leon announced at its casino games Congress that legislation to regulate private online gaming is in the process of being passed. And need I mention that one of the largest European online gambling conferences - the European iGaming Expo - is held in Barcelona every year?

To get the ball rolling, Casino Tropez is offering special bonuses and re-up incentives to players in Italy and Sweden who make deposits via their mobile phones. Players doing so for the first time will find the entire process simple and straightforward. It takes less than three minutes to get started. Players simply fill out a form with their mobile number and country of residence, and wait for an SMS message with further instructions to download online online casinos which include Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Video Poker and several slots, including Playtech's most popular progressive jackpot slots.

Casino Tropez's mobile platform supports ten different cell phone makes, including Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, Panasonic, LG, Noki, and Sony Ericsoon, as well as hundreds of cell phone cells (over forty-five Sony Ericsson models alone!). And for the icing on the cake, Casino Tropez is giving a massive 500% bonus up to $100 Free for mobile gamers. Visit Casino Tropez for more information.

Two Charged With Money-laundering In Connection With Bodog

Federal authorities have charged two men with money-laundering in connection with its ongoing investigation into free casino giant Bodega.

In January and February of this year, after a two-year investigation, the IRS seized about $14.2 million from JBL Services, according to court documents filed in federal court in Baltimore. In July, it seized about $9.87 million from Zip Payments.

According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md., last month, Edward Cordy transmitted money on behalf of Zip Payments and Michael Garold transmitted money on behalf JBL Services.



Courdy is charged with transferring just over $2.38 million in April from Dublin to a Nevada State Bank account held by Zip Payments, and from there to Maryland and elsewhere for the purposes of conducting an illegal gambling business. Garold is charged transferring nearly $1.5 million from Frankfurt, Germany to a bank in Georgia held by JBL Services, and from there to Maryland and elsewhere for the purposes of conducting an illegal gambling business.

In July, Bodog said the seizures didn't affect business for the popular gambling site.

During the course of the investigation, IRS Special Agent Randall Arrow became intimately familiar with the ways the online online gambling handled paying their customers.

"Not one single player failed to get paid when this processor (JBL Services) was disrupted," said Alwyn Morris, chief executive officer of Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, which assumed ownership and operation of Bodega in North America in mid-2007.

"To continue to make 'payouts' to gamblers, some online casinos operators have begun using money processing businesses in the United States," Arrow explained. "Based on my training and experience, I know that, typically, the gambling web site operator will send a U.S. processor a check or wire transfer of a relatively large sum of money, usually hundreds of thousands or million of dollars. The processor then distributes the money to individuals, either by check or electronic transfer of some type. None of the transfers identify the money involved as gambling proceeds."

"Because of various developments (Department of Justice prosecutions and new federal legislation), it has become more and more difficult for Internet gambling web site operators to move money into and out of the United States," Arrow said in an affidavit supporting the seizures back in July.