PF investigates appositive in dollar. Inquiry is opened to investigate denunciation of the Periodical of Brazil on races of horse transmitted on line for the country
AMAURY RIBEIRO JR.
- the Federal Policy of the Rio Grande Do Sul started to yesterday investigate the activities of the Carnegie Cooke of Brazil, company of Porto Alegre that operates the appositive ones of horse races, in dollar, on line, directly of some jockeys of U.S.A.. The inquiry was restored by determination of the superintendent of the PF in the Rio Grande Do Sul, delegated Albinic Rubem Sockink, that said to have yesterday been shocked when taking knowledge, for intermediary of the Periodical of Brazil , of that the resources of the appositive ones of the Carnegie Cooke of Brazil are sent for the exterior. The company of appositive also acts as the name of Jockey Eldorado Club of the South.
' ' This is a barbarity, is wanting, at the very least, to make a trick with people. This casino opens a breach pra that money of other crimes can be washed and be sent for the exterior by means of the gambling habit '', said Sockink.
Known for having deciphered operations of money laudering by means of the Cc-5 accounts (of domiciliated foreign in Brazil), the attorney general in the Rio Grande Do Sul, Celso Three, enumerated a series of crimes to be investigated: money laudering, irregular remittance of resources for the exterior, formation of group and criminal organization. For Celso Three, the functioning of a branch office of the Carnegie Cooke in Brazil demonstrates that for backwards of the contravention if they hide innumerable other crimes.
' ' This history is frightful. Sample that the money gotten with the organized crime can be being washed and sent by the exterior by means of the appositive ones. It is one clear test of that the government of the state commits an error when making seen for the contravention in the State '' thick
Valdo Marques Jr, lawyer of the Carnegie Cooke of Brazil, said yesterday that the functioning of the house has endorsement in a forwarding of the Court of Justice of the Rio Grande Do Sul. According to it, more resources do not fit and the measure guarantees the functioning of the house of appositive until the judgment of the merit. The information, however, was denied yesterday by the assessorship of the press of the Court: it does not have register of sentence guaranteeing the functioning of the house. Line moves only in the Court the criminal proceeding on the legality of appositive on. In 23 of October, the minister of the STF Carlos Veloso denied habeas-corpus to the lawyers of the Carnegie Cooke for considering that appositive on-line of the house must be fit in the crime of criminal contravention.
The lawyer still said that the company has authorization of the Central banking to send the money of the appositive ones for the exterior. This version is contradictated by the proper homeowner, remodelled colonel Valdo Marques, father of the lawyer. according to colonel You mark informed to the Periodical of Brazil, the money of the appositive ones does not leave Brazil.
' ' the Central banking can have given authorization to never send money for the exterior for other ends, for the gambling habit, since it does not have ability for this '', it affirmed solicitor Celso Three.
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Carnegie Cooke Expands Brazilian Market With Parana Track Deal
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carnegie Cooke & Company, Inc., (OTC: CGKY) an authorized provider of gaming services in Brazil, announced today that it entered into an agreement with the Jockey Club of Parana in Curitiba, giving Carnegie the right to open a Race Book.
Carnegie's Brazilian subsidiary, Carnegie Cooke do Brasil Ltda, signed the contract with the club, the country's third largest. Under its terms, Carnegie will manage the Race Book it establishes at the club, and retain 50% of its profits. A race book is a wagering facility in which patrons can view simulcasts of local and international thoroughbred races and wager on them. The agreement also gives Carnegie Cooke the opportunity to open off-track-betting parlors throughout the State of Parana. The OTB's, like the Race Book, will present real-time telecasts of Brazilian and foreign horse races.
Aside from racing, the Jockey Club of Parana is also widely known for its nightclub, which draws multitudes of people seeking the entertainment and social life it offers.
Parana at Center of South Cone Market
The State of Parana, in southern Brazil, has attracted substantial business and industrial investment, because it is the geographic hub of the gigantic South Cone Market, or Mercosul, which encompasses major Latin American economic centers. The economic-development area was formed by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay under the Asuncion Treaty, which their governments signed in 1991.
Curitiba, a Model City
Curitiba, the 309-year-old capital of the state, is home to the Jockey Club of Parana. It is the only Brazilian city to enter the twenty-first century as a national and international reference of urban planning and quality of life. A study sponsored by the United Nations in 2001 gave Curitiba top ranking among Brazilian state capitals in the Index of Quality of Life.
In 2000 and 2001, Curitiba, the administrative and financial center of Parana, topped other Brazilian cities in the number of new enterprises established, according to a study by Simonsen & Associados, published in Examo Magazine. Last August, Moody's gave Curitiba a credit rating of Aa1, its second highest in the general classification, attesting to the urban center's economic strength.
There are two primary reasons why Curitiba has been attracting substantial investments from such leading international groups as Daimler Chrysler, Audi/Volkswagen, General Motors and Renault. The first is that Metropolitan Curitiba is within 930 miles of the capitals of the member countries of the South Cone Market and major Brazilian cities. And, the second is that Curitiba has an excellent infrastructure in terms of transportation, electric power, telecommunications, water supply, sanitation and urban structuring.
About Carnegie Cooke & Company, Inc.
Carnegie Cooke, which has its headquarters in Las Vegas, became a public company in 2000. Its business plan, now being implemented, is to generate profitable revenues by: (1) mechanizing wagering at Brazilian racetracks, (2) operating off-track betting parlors (OTB's), (3) providing international simulcast racing at tracks and OTB's, and (4) placing virtual-reality gaming machines in these locations and other highly-trafficked sites throughout Brazil.
Carnegie owns the Jockey Club El Dorado in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande, and has mechanized its track's wagering system as well as those of eight others in Brazil. It has an exclusive agreement with Caliente, a Mexican corporation, for simulcast transmission of international races throughout Brazil, making it the only company capable of providing such a service in that country. It also has contracted with Comsat, the Lockheed Martin subsidiary, for provision of satellite service. Carnegie is in the process of placing its virtual-reality machines in key locations.
For further information, please contact: Jay Goldberg, CEO of Carnegie Cooke & Company, Inc., +1-800-262-2331; or Ray Dirks, or Sal Nuccio, both of Sky Capital LLC, +1-866-991-9918, for Carnegie Cooke & Company, Inc.
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