In December 2008, Anurag Dikshit, a billionaire Indian businessman, the richest man in Gibraltar and the 207th richest man in the world, a co-founder of PartyGaming, parent company of the world's leading online poker site PartyPoker.com, pled guilty to illegal Internet gambling and agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Justice Department in an investigation of Party Gaming. Dikshit entered the plea to one count of online gambling in violation of the Federal Wire Act and agreed to forfeit $300 million. "I came to believe it was in fact illegal under U.S. law," Dikshit told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in New York, referring to PartyGaming’s activity. "I have taken full responsibility for my actions."
Well, Bikshit is probably the only one criminal who admitted his guilt at once while being ready to pay off the required fine unlike other cyber crime committers we mentioned above. And unlike e-gold or e-bullion executives Dikshit didn’t try to defend himself against the charges and imposed fines with the help of high qualified attorneys.
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