Baazov Trial Gets Under Way Despite Application For A Delay (Update)

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Dec 15, 2017

Former Amaya chief executive and co-accuseds Benjamin Ahdoot and Yoel Altman face insider trading charges in a Montreal court

Criminal proceedings alleging insider trading and other irregularities against former Amaya chief executive David Baazov and two associates began Monday despite a request for a delay by the accuseds’ legal representatives (see previous InfoPowa report).

Baazov’s lawyers had earlier submitted a motion to stay, claiming that the prosecution had overwhelmed them at the last moment with a flood of alleged evidence, leaving them insufficient time to process the information properly before going to trial.

They invoked a Supreme Court of Canada ruling requiring the timely progress through the courts of all cases, pointing out that Baazov was originally charged 18 months ago.

The prosecution responded by acknowledging that their intention had been to send the defence substantially less information than had been dispatched, explaining that the bulk of the information sent to them referred to a related but separate case.

Presiding Judge Salvatore Mascia came up with a compromise, saying he would rule later on the stay motion, but in the meantime a start will be made on hearing the testimony of some 50 witnesses.

Whilst giving no indication of his opinion on the potential outcome of the motion to stay, the judge did opine that the application did not prima facie appear to be frivolous.

Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.


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