U.S.Customs Sequel - But No Denouement

Published: Friday, July 15, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

U.S.CUSTOMS SEQUEL

But no denouement.

Last week's story on the US Customs confiscation of allegedly counterfeit cheques sent by Fedex from a casino group (see Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa report) had a sequel early this week. Unfortunately it doesn't clarify these strange happenings any further.

As we went to press last week, the reputable casino group involved continued to assert that the $25 000 worth of cheques were definitely not counterfeit, and the player involved had engaged a lawyer to find out from US Customs why they thought there was counterfeiting going on, and why they had opened her private mail.

This week the player reported that the casino group had successfully cancelled the cheques, again confirming through their bank that there were no counterfeits. An alternative payment method had been found to speedily pay the player, along with an inconvenience bonus, and the player was happy with the casino (although as we reported last week the casino needed to learn a communication lesson from this issue)

On the Customs front no evidence had yet been produced to back up officialdom's claim that the cheques had been counterfeit. Nevertheless, the cheques remained impounded by Customs in the "Penalty and Fines" department, and the player was asked to sign a letter agreeing to "...abandon her property seized by US Customs"

And that's as far as anyone would go.

The player's lawyer advised her to simply accept the status quo; the player was happy that she had been paid anyway and everyone else intrigued by this story was left with the frustration of only being able to speculate on how and what had really happened!