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Local Agent For UK Online Bookie Gets Charged By Taiwan Police19 February 2003TAIWAN -- As reported by the (Taiwan) Central News Agency: ``An advertising company canvassing local business for British Internet sport betting company Sportingbet was charged with gambling by police yesterday, one day after the bookmaker's founder pitched for his company in Taiwan. ``The Taichung-based Shijiwei Advertising Company was searched by detectives from the Criminal Investigation Bureau, who seized computer equipment, accounting books and list of alleged gamblers who had opened accounts with Shijiwei. ``Police said the search yielded evidence indicating that the company is Sportingbet's partner in Taiwan and has attracted hundreds of millions of new Taiwan dollar wagers from local gamblers for Sportingbet. ``…The company ruffled the authorities' feathers when it invited Sportingbet's founder Mark Blandford to visit Taiwan to promote sport gambling on the Internet…" |