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More about the Ultimate Bet cheating scandal: Tokwiro’s statement
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2008-07-29 18:56
Finally, more details have emerged about the cheating scandal which has been on the front page of every poker news website for the past 6 months. Tokwiro Enterprises, the company behind Ultimate Bet has been conducting an internal investigation for what seemed like forever for most people directly interested in the matter. The results of that investigation were turned over to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, the auditing authority behind the site today.
Apparently, the cheating had been going on for much longer than most have anticipated.
Tokwiro’s investigation puts the date the scheme got under way to early 2005, but also acknowledges the fact that it may have been going on for much longer. Apparently, a separate special account was used by the perpetrators, which was set up with super-user privileges on Ultimate Bet’s server (its owner could basically wiew people’s hole cards through it), thus the accounts mentioned in previous reports as belonging to cheaters were not directly accessing classified data.
There were 19 such accounts involved in the cheating, the owners of which used 88 different screen names through the whole scheme. Besides the data turned over to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, Tokwiro also released a statement regarding the matter. The statement does not unveil the names of the actual people behind the above mentioned accounts, but it does make it clear that names, IP addresses as well as deposit and withdrawal histories involved in the scheme have all been transferred to the KGC.
In the statement, Tokwiro’s Chief Operating Officer took a defensive stance declaring that the software which made the act possible had been installed well before Tokwiro acquired the company in 2006. Even if that is the case, shouldn’t they have discovered it and done something about it somehow? Especially that Tokwiro’s declared objective is to protect the rights of its players…
Despite the fact that an earlier statement released by the KGC stated otherwise, due to the extent of the cheating not all player accounts affected have yet received compensation. To wrap it all up, Tokwiro pledged that it’d pursue all legal avenues open to make sure all victims were fully reimbursed and that their business stayed on track.
