BetonSports Denies Mob Connections

Published: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 Online-Casinos.com

BETONSPORTS DENIES MOB CONNECTIONS

We evicted SDS, says spokeswomen

Reports in the UK press over the weekend linking BetonSports to a New York organised crime family were addressed this week by a spokeswoman for the company.

The spokeswoman confirmed that the company had shared its Costa Rica office with Safe Deposit Sports (SDS) until Spring last year when the allegations of a mob link surfaced.

"SDS was a sub-tenant at the Costa Rica office, which is 1 000 square feet in size," she said. "As soon as BetonSports heard of the allegations they asked SDS to remove themselves from the office." Both firms also shared a solicitor, but there are no other links between the businesses, the spokeswoman said.

SDS was evicted in May 2005 after it was named in an indictment by US authorities against 36 individuals, who were charged with running an illegal gambling ring. It rented space in the Costa Rica office and also used the company's telephone system.

The Times Online published the links over the weekend, reporting that the embattled betting group BetonSports once shared the same address, technical support and solicitor as a company linked to New York's notorious Bonanno crime family.

The company, Safe Deposit Sports (SDS), was part of an illegal gambling ring that netted millions for the Bonannos, one of New York's five Mafia families, according to US prosecutors. SDS shared an address, technical support and a solicitor based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, with the British firm.