reportsSportingbet PLC incur a one-time charge of 252.4 million pounds (US$492.4 million; €373.7 million) after selling off its American operations.

Sportingbet bailed out of the once-lucrative U.S. market, selling its sports-betting, casino business and poker operations last month to Antigua-based Jazette Enterprises Ltd. the day that U.S. President George W. Bush signed a law that criminalizes fund transfers. US. bets accounted for about two-thirds of Sportingbet’s profit.

Betfair has completed the acquisition of Timeform, the publisher of horseracing ratings, form guides and analysis.

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James Giordano, one of those arrested in an FBI operation to break up an illegal online gambling ring worth US$3.3bn, has been refused bail at Queens Criminal Court in New York.