Calvin Ayre / Cole Turner
The thieving allegations by Mayan Sports escalated in after years when it was discovered that the Bodog founder and CEO, then using the alias Cole Turner, was actually Calvin Ayre. This was controversial since in the moment, the sector was not yet conscious that he had been behind El Moro Finance Ltd. (BVI). The actual story came out later that he’d increased capital for Cyberoad as a”consultant”, it collapsed, and a firm he controlled acquired all the assets, at that time he started using an alias (Cole Turner).
This wasn’t the first questionable company dealing involving Calvin Ayre.
Calvin AyreThe self-told story about his past is that he had been born to Canadian pig and grain farmers in 1961. After college and several failed business ventures, he sold everything he owned to raise $10,000 in 1994 to begin a software firm that would eventually become Bodog. What is frequently omitted from the story is that his dad was detained in 1987 for smuggling 750 pounds of marijuana. While Calvin wasn’t charged or arrested, he was referred to by the judge as a co-conspirator who”definitely played a part” In another run with all the legislation, in 1991 that he had been civilly charged with insider trading, but settled for a $10,000 fine and was banned by the Vancouver Stock Exchange before 2016.
When it was found that Cole Turner was actually Calvin Ayre (the owner of Bodog and eSportz), this made Mayan Sports and many Cyberoad investors mad. It is reasonable to say that Calvin Ayre had no shortage of enemies in his early career. But looking ahead to now, Bodog has always been an honest and respectable gambling site which has paid all winners. Mayan, on the other hand, proved to be a rogue gambling site (D+ ranked currently). It’s difficult with the facts about implicate Calvin Ayre of much, but based on track records running a gaming site, Calvin Ayre’s reputation is spotless from the point of view of Bodog account holders along with their obligations.
The Big Book Final To get back on track with the deadline of Bovada history, as mentioned, the company that began Bodog, eSportz was powering The Big Book and sharing an office. Each company used the same payment and accounting firm as well. The narrative of the falling out of Bodog entails a girl called Viktoria Zazoulina (known as Vika) who’d immigrated from the Ukraine to Vancouver, BC, Canada in early 1990’s.
Vika took a position with Kazootek Technologies Ltd. at their beginning (strongly thought to have been a different Calvin Ayre firm ) that did all the financial accounting for its ebanx payment method. Vika began as a junior accountant and had such a good (sensed ) work ethic that her managers increased her cover and covered her education towards a CGA designation (Canada’s word for CPA). She finally reached the cap of the company and hired her friend Tatiana Kostiouk (known as Tanya).
In time, both Vika and Tanya became enrolling officers in a lot of the organization’s Kazootek Technologies Ltd. (meaning they had access to all bank accounts). By this moment, Vika was a genuine immigration success story earning over $100,000 each year. However, on June 15th of 2001, life shifted. This was the date on which Vika and Tanya signed the first of several tests used to embezzle large sums of money from customers, the majority of which considered them close buddies. As they stole and got away with it for decades, their confidence rose. They enrolled a new worker, Greg Tanner, to help start a competing company, which used technology stolen from Kazootek and finance money from their clientele.
According to an article (no longer online) that we suspect was written by Calvin Ayre, they shortly dragged The Large Book into a strategy to develop into a customer and began conspiring how to sneak the source code out of eSportz. With an investigation already under way into the strange behavior seen from Vika lately, alarm bells went off when she gave her inaugural notice in mid-2003. Not allowing her to ruin evidence for the subsequent two weeks, she was immediately escorted out of the building, and her office and computers were locked for forensic audit. The aftermath was the filling of a lawsuit, and Bodog finish its partnership with The Big Book. From this day forward, Bodog.com was the sole brand powered with the eSportz computer software.