A Queensland man, Daniel Tzvetkoff, was arrested in Las Vegas last week and charged with money laundering offences, gambling conspiracy and bank fraud conspiracy.
Mr Tzvetkoff had several businesses in Queensland which collapsed last year and he was declared bankrupt. However, he continued to run an offshore consultancy and billing group.
At the top of his career he was said to be worth around $80million.
He was in the US to attend an internet billing conference, but it seems that he owed money to some US online internet players and consequently they reported him to the US authorities.
Mr Tzvetkoff’s lawyer will apply for bail this week and has stated that it is difficult to assertain what evidence of the alleged charges there is.
The US Attorneys office states that Intabill, Mr Tzvetkoff’s company allegedly assisted gambling companies to process hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions with US online gamblers.
The transactions were allegedly disguised so that they looked as though they were unrelated to gambling.
Prosecutors in the US further state that Mr Tzvetkoff stopped processing online gambling transactions in March last year after accusations he had stolen $US100 million in gambling payments from US bank accounts.
Mr Tzvetkoff faces up to 75 years in a US jail if convicted.








