Gary Kaplan, who used to live in New York, was arrested in the Dominican Republic before being transferred to Puerto Rico where he was denied bail and extradited to the US. There he joins former BoS executive David Carruthers, whose arrest in July 2006 marked the beginning of the US crackdown on the online gambling industry.

The two men stand charged of racketeering and fraud, related to the bookmaking side of the BoS operation. The US case against them is being led by federal attorney Catherine Hanaway, a staunch anti-gambling prosecutor, and will be based on laws that existed prior to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

In an interestingly twist to Kaplan’s arrest it is widely rumoured that Kaplan surrendered himself to the US authorities. Reports have been circling for a while now that Kaplan’s lawyers have been negotiating a deal, and the fact that his arrest took place in the Dominican Republic, rather than his resident country of Antigua, is being used as evidence by some to suggest a deal was in the works. Kaplan is expected to apply for bail during his first court appearance in St Louis.

In the meantime BetOnSports is still being fined $10,000 per day for failing to have its current officers appear in court.