The online poker site POKERTRILLION.com announced last week that Mr Justice Gino Camilleri sitting in the First Hall Civil Court, Malta, issued a judgement authorising Trillion Ltd to enforce seizure of the Boss Media Malta Limited and Boss Media AB servers, and that these servers cease being used for any commercial activity as from 18 September with Boss Media not being allowed to appeal the court’s decision any further.
This judgement, which relates to Trillion Ltd’s multi-million euro law suit for breach of contract against Boss Media AB and their associated companies, comes off the back of a number of successful applications made to the courts in Malta by Trillion Ltd. POKERTRILLION.com CEO Andy Pyrah explains, “Today’s decision will in effect bring down Boss Media’s operation in their licensed jurisdiction of Malta on September 18, and any partner still on the Boss Poker Network at this stage will see their service closed down too.”
The judge further ordered that the cosignatory, who is now responsible for the equipment, also provides full accounts of the revenues being generated from this equipment.
Pyrah comments further, “It should also be noted that despite appeals from Boss Media, we’ve been successful in every one of our applications that we’ve filed with the courts in Malta. This includes having our initial garnishee order increased from e5 million to e20 million earlier this month, which in turn means that there is now a e20 million freezing order on all Boss Media’s assets within this jurisdiction and, in accordance with European law, we will be applying for this to be executed all over Europe.”
However, the situation is far from cut and dried: Boss Media officers have issued a statement in which they again dismiss Poker Trillion’s comments as “reckless” and “groundless.” Boss Media’s statement reads: “Poker Trillion’s recent comments are a reckless attempt to support a legal action that is without merit and initiated as retribution for their dismissal from the Boss Media network. To be clear, player funds are not affected by the current proceedings. All players’ funds are held separately under the control of the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority and cannot be seized by any court.”
It remains to be clarified whether Poker Trillion is telling the truth – which would mean they are entitled to seize Boss Media’s funds and servers – or if Boss Media is right in saying Poker Trillion is just building negative hype.