FAMOUS BRIT BOOKIE ARRESTED?
12 October 2007
Victor Chandler apparently in trouble with French
authorities
The UK newspaper The Daily Mail is reporting that Victor
Chandler, one of Britain's best-known bookmakers, is
understood to be one of a group of bookies arrested
during the Arc de Triomphe horse racing meeting at
Longchamps on Sunday for illegally taking bets.
The group, including Chandler's nephew and rails
representative Butch Beaton-Brown, were apparently
caught in a raid on the corporate facility for British
racegoers run by Horse Racing Abroad, who take around 1
300 punters to the Arc in Paris every year.
Chandler, one of the first bookmakers to start an online
gambling business, which he runs from Gibraltar, was
questioned by French police officers from the racecourse
gambling unit and told not to leave the country before a
further interview.
Chandler stayed overnight in a suite at the five star
George V Hotel just off the Champs-Elysees. His wife
answered the room's phone and when asked by a Daily Mail
reporter whether her husband had been arrested on a
gambling charge, she responded: 'Not exactly, you'll
have to talk to Victor.'
Victor Chandler's PR spokesman Neal Wilkins, first asked
for a comment on Sunday evening, said he still had no
'concrete news' 24 hours later before issuing a short
statement, which said: 'Four people from Victor Chandler
were questioned by French police on Monday in respect of
various aspects regarding entertaining at Longchamps.
They were subsequently released without charge.'
Ian Fry, boss of Horse Racing Abroad, said he had seen
none of the party of more than 10 gendarmes who raided
his pavilion premises at Longchamps, nor had he seen
Chandler at the racecourse.
Yet Thierry Delegue, a director of French racing's
ruling body, said: 'The police have arrested three
English bookmakers.'
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