Tony, Owner of 5Dimes Missing?
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Costa Rica-based online sportsbook 5Dimes has been caught up in a money laundering probe that also involves a director of the country?s national bank.This week, Costa Rican media outlet Nacion.com reported that Marisol Carvajal Cordero, a 35-year-old local listed as the manager of 5Dimes, had been connected to companies whose Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) accounts were abruptly closed in November after the bank was unable to verify the source of the funds in the accounts.
The report claims Carvajal -controlled companies based in Malta and Dubai transferred a total of $1.53b in 2014 to BCR accounts. Some of this $1.53b was transferred to 5Dmes?s parent company, Red Planet SA, which Carvajal also heads up. The BCR claimed it was unable to resolve the volume of the transferred funds with Carvajal?s managerial status.
Around $67m was transferred from Caravajal?s accounts to Latinamerica Trust & Escrow Company SA (Latco), a company ostensibly set up to handle real estate administration in Costa Rica. The $67m was moved in 25 transfers from the Malta and Dubai companies via banks in Germany, Spain the UK and the United States.
Around 30% of the funds deposited with Latco were forwarded to accounts in Panama and Peru, while 67% were transferred to Latco accounts at other CR banks and the remaining 3% was distributed via cashier checks.
Lawyer Manfred Pino reportedly holds the vast majority (87%) of Latco?s shares, while his wife controls the rest.Jennifer Morsink, a BCR director, is listed as Latco?s treasurer.
In a followup report, Pino told Nacion.com that the probe was the result of a personal feud between Morsink and BCR president Paola Mora Tumminelli. Pino claimed Mora suspected Morsink of being the author of an anonymous conflict of interest complaint filed against Mora last September, two months before the accounts were closed.
Pino claims Mora personally warned him that the bank would launch the probe unless Morsink fessed up to being the author of the complaint. Pino also claimed that the bank?s claim of inadequate documentation involving the Malta and Dubai companies was due to Pino only having been given 72 hours to produce the necessary documents.
It?s important to note that Costa Rican officials have yet to file charges against anyone connected with this probe. But 5Dimes? plight reflects the increasingly ridiculous hurdles that American sports bettors must negotiate in order to fund their entertainment choices, all because US authorities can?t seem to disabuse themselves of outdated notions of the morality of sports betting.
This is the second time Costa Rica?s online gambling industry has been connected with a money laundering probe in as many weeks. Late last month, Western Union revealed that US federal authorities were probing the company?s transactions with online gambling firms, including at dozens of WU agent locations in Costa Rica.
The report claims Carvajal -controlled companies based in Malta and Dubai transferred a total of $1.53b in 2014 to BCR accounts. Some of this $1.53b was transferred to 5Dmes?s parent company, Red Planet SA, which Carvajal also heads up. The BCR claimed it was unable to resolve the volume of the transferred funds with Carvajal?s managerial status.
Around $67m was transferred from Caravajal?s accounts to Latinamerica Trust & Escrow Company SA (Latco), a company ostensibly set up to handle real estate administration in Costa Rica. The $67m was moved in 25 transfers from the Malta and Dubai companies via banks in Germany, Spain the UK and the United States.
Around 30% of the funds deposited with Latco were forwarded to accounts in Panama and Peru, while 67% were transferred to Latco accounts at other CR banks and the remaining 3% was distributed via cashier checks.
Lawyer Manfred Pino reportedly holds the vast majority (87%) of Latco?s shares, while his wife controls the rest.Jennifer Morsink, a BCR director, is listed as Latco?s treasurer.
In a followup report, Pino told Nacion.com that the probe was the result of a personal feud between Morsink and BCR president Paola Mora Tumminelli. Pino claimed Mora suspected Morsink of being the author of an anonymous conflict of interest complaint filed against Mora last September, two months before the accounts were closed.
Pino claims Mora personally warned him that the bank would launch the probe unless Morsink fessed up to being the author of the complaint. Pino also claimed that the bank?s claim of inadequate documentation involving the Malta and Dubai companies was due to Pino only having been given 72 hours to produce the necessary documents.
It?s important to note that Costa Rican officials have yet to file charges against anyone connected with this probe. But 5Dimes? plight reflects the increasingly ridiculous hurdles that American sports bettors must negotiate in order to fund their entertainment choices, all because US authorities can?t seem to disabuse themselves of outdated notions of the morality of sports betting.
This is the second time Costa Rica?s online gambling industry has been connected with a money laundering probe in as many weeks. Late last month, Western Union revealed that US federal authorities were probing the company?s transactions with online gambling firms, including at dozens of WU agent locations in Costa Rica.
He didn't deserve to be murdered, but he sure had shit going on, and was hated by almost everybody on the planet. I don't think anybody is happy he's dead, but he won't be missed, and not many tears are being shed for his death that is for sure.
BODY OF ?5DIMES TONY? FOUND AFTER KIDNAPPING AND RANSOM DEMAND
http://www.flushdraw.net/news/body-of-5dimes-tony-found-after-kidnapping-and-ransom-demand/
5Dimes Tony Unlikely to Have Faked His Own Death
https://www.gxx ing911.com/5Dimes-Tony-Faked-His-Own-Death.html
This whole saga would make for one hell of a movie.
BODY OF ?5DIMES TONY? FOUND AFTER KIDNAPPING AND RANSOM DEMAND
http://www.flushdraw.net/news/body-of-5dimes-tony-found-after-kidnapping-and-ransom-demand/
5Dimes Tony Unlikely to Have Faked His Own Death
https://www.gxx ing911.com/5Dimes-Tony-Faked-His-Own-Death.html
This whole saga would make for one hell of a movie.
it is weird how obsessed you are with this and how much you seem to hate a guy you've never met other than disputing a tennis wager? did he hurt your feelings that bad that years later you are still stewing over it?
your fixation on this and hatred for him is really weird.
anyway, nobody deserves to be fucking kidnapped, held for ransom, and then murdered regardless of how much of an asshole they are to clients on live chat. jesus christ.
from the live chat logs i've read i always got a kick out of him and thought he was hilarious. he spoke how he felt and didn't have time for bullshit. sorry you got so upset by him?
RIP Tony
We all have our obsessions, I'll get back to my porn bookmarks soon enough, but for now I'll stick with this. I appreciate your concern in this manner, always good when fellow Madjackers look out for one anothers mental well being, it is touching.
Treating people like shit isn't ever really funny.
I'm not in the "deserved to be murdered" camp and I never will be, but it doesn't sound like he made a lot of friends and it doesn't sound like he cared much if he did, thus the reaction that is going on now.
Well said. And yes nobody is happy he died and of course he didn't deserve to be murdered, but yep not that funny to treat people like shit all the time. Oh and throw in the fact he treated the women in his office like garbage, not good, nope not good.
I just find it hard to believe he's dead. If kidnappers kill their ransom victims they stop getting their ransoms. If it was a true ransom situation I'd expect him to be released. If he is indeed "dead" I would wager it's staged. A little plastic surgery and new passports and a new life.
Not if was a contract made to look like a kidnapping & there is no official report of a body yet. :0003
" I'm in CR and to be honest I haven't heard much in the news regarding this case, I do have to point out that the media outlets that have given the most coverage are the least respectable outlets: Diario Extra and La Prensa Libre, which, if i'm not mistaken, are under the same company, but the biggest and more respected outlets have been close to no reports regarding this, you can even google or search them (La Nacion, Teletica 7, Repretel) so this makes me believe that there's something else that they are hiding. I could even dare to say that the people involved in this kidnapping have seen the other threads for this topic."
I guess I should have said this "IT'S A QUOTE FROM FROM ANOTHER SITE" :0008
I guess I should have said this "IT'S A QUOTE FROM FROM ANOTHER SITE" :0008
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5Dimes Tony: What Happened to His Body?
https://www.gambling911.com/what-happened-to-tony-from-5dimes.html
I didn't say it was top notch reporting, I just find it odd that no body has been confirmed found. Weird shit, very weird shit. And also very odd that no major news source has attacked this story, well none that I know of anyway.
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Haven't really followed this that much. So still no body? :142smilie
Fucking bastard is still alive. :142smilie
Doesn't surprise me. Either way he didn't deserve to die but this smells.
Fucking bastard is still alive. :142smilie
Doesn't surprise me. Either way he didn't deserve to die but this smells.
