Kudos to Hartley for an excellent well-written article. I am sure that he spent lots of time attempting to contact those in the know, assuming anybody really is, who probably weren't too interested in discussing the matter.
The bottom line here is that DOJ is being very heavy-handed in all this. DOJ presumes that alll neteller funds were involved in internet gambling which DOJ construes as being illegal. In DOJ's view, neteller creditors participated in an illegal activity and they don't give two shits if they suffered financial losses.
I suggest that any neteller creditor with nothing to hide (is there anybody among us?) should contact DOJ and assert a claim with documentation for monies owed them. This means that either you paid taxes on all gambling winnings or you can show that you really had no winnings. Perhaps this would put you among the first in line when and if DOJ disburses the funds. But you better have clean hands as they say in the law. In any event, it may take years to sort all this out and filing a DOJ claim may not be worth it unless you have a substantial amount of funds in limbo. The other route would be a class action suit filed by neteller creditors. The downside is that I'm bot sure it would be winner, few attorneys probably would want the case, and those who did would keep much of the proceeds in the event of any success.
This is an ugly and unfair situation that I guess was foreshadowed when Pinny withdrew from the American market. You can vote for change at the ballot box, but in reality neither party is going to have the bettors' best interests at heart.  |