Gary Kaplan, who used to live in New York, was arrested in the Dominican Republic before being transferred to Puerto Rico, from where he was extradited to the US. There he will join former BoS executive David Carruthers, who was arrested in the US in July, to stand charges related to the bookmaking side of the BoS operation.

The US case against BoS is being led by federal attorney Catherine Hanaway, a staunch anti-gambling prosecutor who will be using racketeering and fraud statutes against Kaplan and Carruthers.

Interestingly it is widely rumoured that Kaplan surrendered himself to the US authorities. Reports have been circling for some time that Kaplan’s lawyers have been negotiating a deal, and the fact that he was arrested in the Dominican Republic, rather than his resident country of Antigua, is being used as evidence by some media to suggest a deal was in the works. He is expected to apply for bail during his first court appearance in St Louis.

Meanwhile BetOnSports is still being fined $10,000 per day for failing to have its current officers appear in court.