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US officials were not present when Mounties visited Canadian company
The intriguing story of an official police visit to a Vancouver marketing company doing work for Absolute Poker (see previous InfoPowa reports) took an interesting new turn this week when a spokesman for the RCMP provided more detail.
Contrary to perceptions created by the original report in a video presentation on YouTube, it now appears that US officials were not present when Canadian federal police visited the company, which still remains unidentified. Nor has the RCMP elaborated on the nature of the visit, the questions that were asked and who was questioned.
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The latest comment from the RCMP is as follows and comes from an officer in charge of the Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team (IIGET) at "E" Division in Vancouver:
"I'd like to provide you with a brief description of what actually took place.
"Our two female constables attended this [still not identified] company's Vancouver office at the request of the American authorities.
"Questions were asked in a respectful tone. Answers to these inquiries were provided. Our US counterparts were informed of the results of our inquiries. Full stop.
"There was no American law enforcement or prosecutorial presence. There was no raid. There was no jurisdictional issue. This was a routine investigative inquiry received from a foreign government. The RCMP accommodated the request."
From this it would appear that US DoJ officials were not present at all, and that the RCMP was complying with a "law enforcement to law enforcement" international request for cooperation which did not involve threats of legal consequences.
But, again the spokesman has not revealed the identity of the company, or what the enquiry and DoJ questions were all about.
The way things are going - with continued silence from all concerned - it doesn't look as if that will ever be known publicly.
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