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Everleaf Gaming Releases Official Statement – Seizure Order

Everleaf Gaming has released and official statement regarding it’s hasty exit of the U.S. Market. Attached is a PDF scan provided by Everleaf Gaming of a seizure order from the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington.

Everleaf confirmed that some funds of one of its payment processors were seized by the U.S. government, necessitating the online poker site’s blocking of American players. You can read the entire release below:

As has been reported, certain funds maintained by one of our payment processors to be distributed to U.S. customers were seized by U.S. authorities. To our knowledge, the U.S. authorities seized these funds and blocked the transactions based on purported violations of certain U.S. laws,
including operating an illegal money transmitting business, the Wire Act, and money laundering. Evidence relative to the subject can be reviewed from
the attached papers.

Please be advised that this seizure occurred in the United States and only affects U.S. players.

In view of the above Everleaf will no longer accept U.S. players. None the less Everleaf reiterates and wants to reassure all the effected players that
all the funds will be refunded in full and the effected parties will be contacted in a short while accordingly.

For the other markets we operate in and with regards to all our other players we want to reassure you that nothing has changed and thank you for
the continued business with our Company.

We sincerely apologize for the lack of communication to date, but as a Company we were still trying to find our feet and assessing the situation at
hand and how to best protect the interest of all the effected parties.

Everleaf Gaming

If you need the backstory on the Everleaf situation, read a previous story here.

The amount of funds seized was not mentioned in the press release, although a story here listed the amount as about $27,000. The statement is the first since Everleaf stopped accepting U.S. players early in February.

Everleaf is the latest casualty as a result of the actions of the U.S. government. Last April, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and the Cereus Network (Absolute Poker and UB.com) all had their domains seized and were forced to give up accepting players from the United States. While PokerStars was able to repay its American players, Full Tilt and Cereus have not. Full Tilt is in the middle of negotiations to be purchased by Groupe Bernard Tapie, while late last year there were reports that Cereus’ parent company would liquidate assets in an attempt to repay American players.

Currently, the Merge Gaming Network, the Winning Poker Network and Cake Poker continue to serve U.S. online poker players.

Everleaf added to their statement on February 24th. Read the update here.

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