Online Casino Bodog.com CEO's House Raided by Police
12 March 2006
The following might seem like something cut right out of an episode of Candid Camera. Despite cameras being present at the scene, however, yesterday's events were most definitely not a laughing matter. Online casino Bodog.com CEO Calvin Ayre was filming a party at his Costa Rican mansion as part of a celebrity poker tournament, which is scheduled to be aired an major television network.
Out of the blue, dozens of policemen suddenly barged in to the mansion, believing an illegal casino night session was taking place, and thus ending the party. Ayre reportedly said that the policemen looked as though they were raiding the lair of Al Capone. No arrests were made, but a laptop and several files containing organizational material were confiscated from the premises.
Ayre appeared recently in Forbes magazine as Canada's newest billionaire. Perhaps wondering how Ayre managed to make so much money at just 44 years old, local press in Costa Rica began speculating that he regularly held illegal casino nights. The court-ordered raid proved unsuccessful as the gambling segments of the reality poker TV show were reportedly filmed at a local television station, and not in his mansion.
Source: OCN Staff
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