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On Friday, March 4, the body of self-made millionaire Koen Everink was found in his home in Bilthoven, Netherlands. The former director of the travel agency Eliza Was Here was stabbed to death.
Twenty days later, on March 24, Mark de J., tennis coach of Dutch tennis pro Robin Haase, was arrested at Schiphol airport in connection with the homicide. At the time of the arrest, de J. was on his way back from Miami, where Haase was scheduled to play in the ATP Masters 1000. Hasse ended up not participating in the competition because of a knee injury.
Prior to the arrest, de J. spoke to the authorities and explained that he had been watching a Dutch premier league match between Feynoord and AZ at Everink's place. He reported that he had seen suspicious characters in the house's surroundings, but his claim raised suspicion with police investigators. De J. submitted his phone to a search but, was allowed to travel to the United States with Haase.
Is an €80,000 Poker Debt the Motive?
On March 26, Dutch newspaper Het Algemeen Dagblad was the first to connect De J. to online poker.
"Mark de J. had until recently been active in online poker," the newspaper wrote. "It appears he was playing for large sums of money. On an online poker forum, he offered large sums of money that he wanted to exchange to a different electronic currency. There are different types of electronic wallets, such as Skrill and Neteller, which allow for online payments. In the last year, De J. tried to exchange large sums of money, ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 per instance. Usually, he tried to swap Skrill or Neteller funds for funds on PokerStars."
Koen Everink Murder Case Rumored To Be About €80,000 Poker Debt | PokerNews
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On Thursday, Maryland-based investor Harvey Weisman filed a proposed class action complaint in the US Southern District of New York (SDNY), alleging that Amaya failed to disclose the shenanigans of its embattled CEO David Baazov, who announced this week that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company.
Baazov, along with another Amaya exec and a former financial advisor, were charged with insider trading last week, while 13 other individuals – including Baazov’s older brother Josh – had their trading privileges suspended by the securities regulator in Amaya’s home province of Quebec over sketchy Amaya-related trading activity dating back to 2010.
Weisman says Amaya had a duty to disclose Baazov’s trading activity and also failed to properly disclose deficiencies in its internal controls. Weisman claims that false and/or misleading statements by Amaya execs caused the company’s share price to be artificially inflated before shedding over one-fifth its value following last week’s AMF charges.
In addition to Amaya and Baazov, Weisman’s suit also lists CFO Daniel Sebag as a defendant. While not included in last week’s charges, Sebag was identified as a person of interest when the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) launched its investigation in late 2014, several months after Amaya’s $4.9b acquisition of the Rational Group, the parent company of PokerStars.
As with the flood of daily fantasy sports class action suits that followed last fall’s data leak scandal, multiple law firms in different US states are actively beating the bushes looking for aggrieved investors who purchased Amaya shares on the Nasdaq exchange between June 8, 2015 and March 23, 2016, in case they want to add their names to the roster of plaintiffs.
In the US, class action lawsuits are to companies like barnacles are to boats: not likely to cause the vessel to sink but an annoyance that needs to be scraped away all the same. This is just one more negative distraction for Amaya, with a degree of severity somewhere between the erosion of its core poker customer base and mounting questions as to which Baazov brother is actually calling the shots.
Amaya Insider Trading Scandal Sparks US Class Action Suit | Online Gambling News : CalvinAyre-com