In recent days, former BET on SPORTS players contacted us via every known communication method, sans smoke signals, to ask the question, “Has anyone been contacted yet?” After all – it has been over a month since Vantis was appointed as the liquidator for BETonSPORTS.

The answer is no – no one has been contacted. We corresponded with dozens of players this week that so far have heard nothing. We announced that a forensic accounting firm in England, Vantis plc, had been appointed to liquidate the beleaguered sportsooks’ assets and disperse funds to creditors, including players on October 25. We have been in contact with Vantis on a regular basis since that day. They had told us early on it would take several weeks to contact all players…..

We contacted Vantis this week and not only got an email response but also had an informative conversation with a lead member of the team working on returning creditors funds. We were told that this is an ongoing process and that Vantis is “still in the process of extracting customer records from the various BetonSports systems”. In addition, we were informed that they were still confirming the validity of much of the data and had several systems to go through. Apparently, this is the result of all of the different sportsbook, casino and poker brands, gaming licenses and office locations operated by BETonSPORTS. What we really wanted was dates that players could expect to hear contact from Vantis. Instead we got back a pretty standard sounding reply. “As soon as we are confident we have extracted all the necessary information we will notify customers accordingly.”

Finally, we asked specifically about the funds. We were told that there is still significant money that has not been repaid to the company and that Vantis is actively working to collect more funds. They are doing this simultaneously with working through the various data bases validating records. Vanits has told us and the public that they are working diligently to end this ordeal for everyone. The odd thing is that though Vantis claims to be an independent company, this is starting to sound very familiar to the BETonSPORTS company line that we have heard for so many months…..

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