The entire Caribbean CAGE LLC (“CAGE”) and its affiliated companies Compliance regime is predicated on, maintained and strictly enforced based on its unequivocal commitment to ensuring that its video lottery and sports betting operations are not used as a channel the illegal purposes of money-laundering or the terrorist financing; and to ensure against exposure to compliance, legal and reputational risks associated with each of those activities. As a company engaged in the international video lottery and sports betting arenas, CAGE is keenly focused on and remains constantly vigilant to prevent, detect and report any and all suspicious activity or business transactions at any of its own operated locations and at the locations of any of its authorized locations.
CAGE’s video lottery terminal (“VLT”) and sports betting operations utilize what is commonly referred to in the industry as the “gas station model” which requires each player to provide a specific cashier with the actual cash that he or she intends to wager on a specific video lottery terminal or sporting event, or activity in a sporting event; which the cashier then in turn, via a computer-connected cashier terminal, places on requested terminal or records for the player as requested. The player is then able to “place bets” on a specific VLT or simply await the outcome of the sporting event or sporting activity on which he or she has placed a bet. This “gas station model” is the lynch-pin of the CAGE Anti-money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Compliance Program.
CAGE has implemented rigorous and strictly enforces policies and procedures that require its own cashiers (“Professional Services Representatives”) and those of its Agents to “know” the players/bettors who frequent betting locations and to “collect specific identification data” on all of those players/bettors whenever specified amounts are bet by a player/bettor, or when specified, repetitive bets are made by a player/bettor within specified time-frames. In addition, CAGE systematically performs risk assessments and due diligence reviews of its own business relationships and those of its agents, with vendors, to prevent, detect, and preclude its video lottery and sports betting operations from being utilized for illegal money laundering and terrorism financing activity.