Tokwiro concludes UltimateBet investigation
28th July, 2008
The owner of UltimateBet.com, Tokwiro Enterprises, has announced it has concluded its investigation into the cheating scandal that took the online-poker world by storm that involved two popular poker operators, UltimateBet and Absolute Poker.
The investigation concluded with the identifying of 19 accounts and 88 usernames involved in the cheating scheme, which was allegedly perpetrated by former UltimateBet employees.
“Make no mistake: our management team is outraged that this cheating occurred on our site through illicit software placed on the US servers prior to our purchasing UltimateBet,” said Paul Leggett, COO of Tokwiro. “Tokwiro is aggressively pursuing legal avenues of redress in order to protect and compensate our players and the business. Rest assured that we will release more information to the poker community and to the public at large as we enforce our and our players’ rights.”
This is only the first step, however, into finding out the complete truth about the scandal because the investigations findings have been handed off to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, who has been running its own investigation independently.
“With respect to refunds to the affected players, we are continuing our analysis in order to determine the refund amounts,” Leggett said. “We will move forward with another round of refunds in the weeks ahead. We thank the poker community for its invaluable contributions to this investigation and assure it that we remain committed to fully investigating any claims of fraud on our site.”
The cheaters used a complex system of transferring money to multiple players and having multiple accounts deposit the money, which made it difficult to identify the source of the money acquired through cheating.
“We cannot over-emphasize the fact that Tokwiro and its entire management team had no knowledge of the illicit software until it was reveal by our investigation; and no one associated with Tokwiro was involved in the cheating scheme at any point,” Leggett said.
Their report also points out that the cheating players used software to view players hole cards, but the username viewing the hole cards was not playing any games. The cheating was done through separate usernames, further adding to the difficulty in naming the suspects.
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