[ttwarrior1]

Police in Costa Rica raided the offices of Absolute Poker/UB this morning. Agents with the Organismo Investigacion Judicial (OIJ), their version of the Department of Justice, armed with a search warrants, hit at least six separate locations including residential homes as well as the offices of persons associated with the poker companies.
The police action follows the indictments brought by the Justice Department last month against Absolute Poker and two other online poker sites for money laundering, bank and wire fraud, and illegal gambling. Earlier this week, it was reported that Absolute Poker would be filing for bankruptcy. Rumors are that the police raid was to protect Costa Rican employees against fears that the company would not be able to play their employees.
Customer support offices for PokerStars were also raided, possibly also over concerns for their employees, but were shortly re-opened and authorities have given the impression that whatever motivated the raid has been resolved.
According to a recent statement from PokerStars, “PokerStars continues to operate the world's largest poker room, business as usual. It is true that the OIJ is currently at the PokerStars Costa Rican office and has sent employees home temporarily, but employees will be able to return in a few hours. PokerStars expects the office to return to business as usual in short order as this action was most likely taken as a response to problems experienced by other local companies in the same industry.”
Sources say that Costa Rican authorities are looking for two of the principals of Absolute Poker, Scott Tom and Brent Beckley, who were named in the US federal indictments.
There is video of the raid on the Absolute Poker office which shows both the initial raid as way as the police entry to look for evidence.

[Resler]

That is insane that Costa Rica is actually doing it. The only poker I have been playing now is in the SBR Poker room.

[ttwarrior1]

beat u too it sbr tv hours ago