Evolution AB is a leading provider of online gaming products and services in the United States and international markets where iGaming is allowed. It is a step closer to learning the identity of the group that commissioned a report in 2021 about its global operations.
New Jersey-based white-collar litigation law firm Calcagni & Kanefsky or C-K filed a complaint in November 2021 with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement or DGE supposedly tipping off the Atlantic City casino and state iGaming regulator that Evolution wasn’t suitable to possess an online gaming license. The complaint alleged that an unknown investigative team was able to access the online live-dealer games in different black markets. This includes in numerous countries facing US sanctions.
Primary business of Evolution is providing live-dealer table games through the internet from its remote studios. The complaint fielded by the DGE claimed blackjack, craps, roulette, and other interactive live casino offerings of Evolution were accessed in countries where such online gambling isn’t allowed. This includes in sanctioned nations such as Sudan, Syria, and Iraq.
The DGE’s probe into the matter turned up no evidence. The probe found that Evolution did not allow anyone to access its live-dealer streams in such markets. Subsequently, Evolution sued C-K on defamation allegations.
C-K appealed to let the law firm to keep confidential the investigation group that carried out the global operation. Nonetheless, Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John Porto ruled. He determined that Evolution should receive partial disclosure in its discovery related to the civil lawsuit. Later, The New Jersey Supreme Court agreed.
Recently, C-K made public that an intelligence service based in Israel, Black Cube was behind the global probe. Nevertheless, C-K maintained that it doesn’t know who commissioned the Black Cube team. The team traveled around the world to check if Evolution’s products were accessible in places where they shouldn’t be.
