It didn’t make worldwide headlines, however the latest arrests in Kuala Lumpur are surely staggering. Some weeks ago two persons who were spending their vacations in Turkey were arrested on a charge of their online casino gambling industry involvement. The latest arrests are made for the similar reason. Some Victor Chandler employees are being arrested in Kuala Lumpur at present since the government of Malaysia investigates the internet casinos involvement in taking online gaming into the country. However, the alarming thing is that the global mass media failed to report on the matter, and Victor Chandler hasn’t released a statement for press regarding the incident.

Internet casino gambling remains unlawful in the majority of regions worldwide. In spite of the fact that European countries and some of South American ones have greeted online gambling warmly, the greater part of the South Pacific region restricts the online casinos, and sometimes traditional gambling is banned as well. As regards this case, Phil Hall, Victor Chandler’s PR representative, gave his comments on the matter; he said that they use the Malaysian offices as “an IT center, a customer service center,” and they haven’t ever been used for any gambling or taking bets. Therefore they do not break any gambling laws of Malaysia.

Victor Chandler, one of the world’s top independent bookmaking and gaming groups, is involved in the internet gambling and sportsbetting industry in Europe and the company does not operate the online gambling in Malaysia. But with the growing expansion of internet gambling on the worldwide front, it isn’t the first time when government officials have looked to arrests in order to make sure that business based in their country isn’t operating online casinos.

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