Reply To: Owners of Lucky18 arrested!

Dominique, thanks for news. I wondered why they didn’t reply me

This wasn’t the first news about this.

Back on July 28th, 2009, Haaretz.com reported:

Israel okays extradition of suspected Israeli mob kingpins to U.S.

Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday approved the state’s request to extradite senior mob figures Yitzhak and Meir Abergil to the United States as per a criminal indictment that was served against them last year. The Abergils are the subject of a racketeering investigation.

Israeli authorities will also extradite three additional suspected criminals – Sason Barashi, Moshe Malul, and Yisrael Ozifa – implicated in the Abergil investigation.

Prosecutors allege that the Abergils conspired with Malul to arrange for the murder of a known drug dealer, Sami Atias, in Los Angeles. The Abergil brothers are also alleged to have extorted money from Chai Vaknin and his brother, Asi Vaknin, a former partner in the Roberto modeling agency, in a scheme to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars embezzled from a bank.

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American authorities allege that Asi Vaknin lost upwards of one million dollars in failed stock investments.

Full story here

Alex, I never tried to figure out what staff member posted what, it is irrelevant to me.

I hadn’t thought of Gregger, obviously he is with CAP and does the videos…

The reason I volunteer as mod is because I think CAP is useful to affiliates and I like to keep it that way. I don’t really care who is on staff… or who pays what to whom or if they eat their broccoli or what the color of their toilet paper is. That’s their business.

What I do care about is affiliates getting useful information. That there are no arbitrary bannings. That CAP is responsive to affiliates. That’s what I care about.

None of this has anything to do with Lucky18, so please open a new thread if you want to ask a bunch of CAP questions.

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Thanks for the information Dom. You are doing the right thing in letting us know. It’s up to each affiliate to decide from there. We’ve never promoted them, so we don’t have an issue either way, but it doesn’t look good for the industry if the allegations are true.

Just for the sake of truth here, I don’t think all employees have CAP in their user title. Also, not everyone that has CAP in their name is an owner, or management, some are simply employees.

sigh. transparency.
will the real slim shady please stand up.

thx greg

It appears the owners of Lucky 18 casino have been arrested in Israel!

Further research finds this:

You can find out more at haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1114122.html and bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2009/09/israeliamerican-asi-vaknin-arrested.html

I have spoken to CAP admin about this and they are removing Lucky 18 until this matter is clarified.

I strongly recommend you do the same.

I did that weeks ago

Was it pure mdma? or rolls? lol
Anyway, glad I dont promote them!

wow. I wish things like this didn’t happen int he industry. It is hard enough getting legislation passed to legalize online gambling in the states without the right having ties between online casinos and any or all or drugs, money laundry and crime.

I would like to note that while removing your affiliate links might be a good idea to protect your traffic, we should not make any judgements until a verdict has been declared. Arrested and guilty are not always the same and I think we owe it to the industry to at least hear out the trial.

Unfair to dump a program on hearsay. They are a paid sponsor of CAP and deserve CAPs support.

It’s the real world – and speaking for myself, I can’t afford to send players to a place that may not be there tomorrow.

I don’t think affiliates would be happy if CAP acted like nothing happened and we lost comissions over it…

CAP is here to serve affiliates, not operators. :hattip:

We can watch how it goes and those of us who promote Lucky18 can put them back up if it blows over.

Just my opinion, not a CAP statement here.