Interwetten confiscating winnings

[Duncan Disorder]

I have heard nothing since this reply dated the third of June:

I am writing to acknowledge your complaint with regards to Interwetten Malta
Ltd. and advise an investigation is being conducted into the matter you
have raised.

This can be a lengthy process depending on the complexity of the incident.
As soon as the investigation has been concluded and an outcome is available
you will be advised accordingly.

This is on the SBR website:
http://www.bookmakersreview.com/Ratings_History/10218/

Oh dear, oh dear.

[Casinomeister]

<sigh> another email off to Malta...

[Ferretktf]

<sigh> another email off to Malta...

Cheers Bryan - appreciate your efforts here.

[kah]

So in short, none of the players who submitted complaints heard anything from Malta, or is it just Ferretktf?

Still nothing for me either. Did you ever hear back from Malta following your last email? This amount of time for their "investigation" is really not acceptable. Are they hoping that if they do absolutely nothing for long enough all of the players affected will just forget and go away??

[thelawnet]

Any chance we can get Gordon Brown to seize Malta's assets and have them declared a terrorist state?

[vinylweatherman]

Any chance we can get Gordon Brown to seize Malta's assets and have them declared a terrorist state?

Maybe a formal complaint to the EU Commission about them being in breach of EU rules in failing to investigate or indeed respond to those affected.

Being in the EU does not guarantee that a juristiction is any good, but being in the EU means there is a higher body to complain to if an individual state fails to carry out it's duties.

If this were Kahnawake, there would be no higher authority to complain to that would make a difference.

Malta will see their reputation steadily decline, and players will begin to see that being in the EU makes no difference to how well they carry out the task, and will see that it takes a MAJOR country to be able to take on the job of PROPERLY regulating the industry, or at least a minor state that has proved itself to the player community.

[Pinababy69]

So, with the resignation of Mario Galea, referenced here:

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...signs-lga.html

Will this change the landscape at all? Is there any hope that now the affected players can at least get the common courtesy of having a decision made on their disputes? I sure hope so.

[DiamondGeezer]

Yes we do deserve justice from the LGA. It is a sad state of affairs that they can ignore a case where over £50K was removed from players funds without even conducting an investigation.

[Casinomeister]

So, with the resignation of Mario Galea, referenced here:

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...signs-lga.html

Will this change the landscape at all? Is there any hope that now the affected players can at least get the common courtesy of having a decision made on their disputes? I sure hope so.

Well, there goes my main point of contact

[Ferretktf]

so where do we go from here? nine months on; Interwetten still happily trading and afaik still stealing money from customers, absolutely no response or interest from the regulators, and no real industry condemnation of Interwetten's practices (which has occured with other casino's that attempt to defraud their customers - this was no attempt; they did defraud us)

CM - what would you suggest?