SportingBet Back on Feet

The online casino SportingBet.com saw a drop in their shares after two of their employees were detained while visiting Turkey. The employees were in their London based office, and had been in Turkey on vacation when they were arrested.

The employees were not together at the time of the arrest, and are currently being held by police. The two are among several other people who were affiliated with their Turkish online casino – Superbahis.

Sportingbet.com had been working on reducing their operations over there the past few months, and many of the other detainees were related to the online casino’s ex-marketing partner Maslin Properties. They said that though they had not received any formal clarification of the event, they were aware that they had been detained.

Initially shares went down for the online casino, but they have since bounced back. They are aware that some forms of gambling are not legal in Turkey, but they know that casino gambling is.