Casino owner sues RTG

When the business relationship between an online casino operator and his or her software provider goes sour it can lead to some pretty unsavoury events that affect players and well as the warring parties.

Such seems to have been the case in civil court case 05E 000 200 E, filed and now a public document in the Fulton County Court in Georgia, USA. The 8 page document spells out the allegations in a cold logical fashion, listing the complainant as Giant Vegas and Kiss online casinos under a company called Interbet. The casinos are owned by Australian entrepreneur Brian Goodman.

Facing the accusations is KDMS International better known as Realtime Gaming, and its Montana Overseas SA subsidiary in Panama.

Interbet was a licensee using RTG software, but when the business relationship went sour and Goodman wanted to change to an alternative software platform the relationship became strained.

The document lists a number of very serious allegations dealing with unilateral closure of merchant accounts and casinos without Interbet's consent; notices to players that the casinos were closing, encouraging them to use other RTG operations; refusing access to Interbet's Neteller and casino assets; an accusation that the defendants made false written statements regarding Interbet's honesty and perhaps most damning of all an allegation that Interbet's player lists may have been sold to spammers.

The document asks for both punitive and compensatory damages and various other costs, but there is no indication on whether a trial date has been set.