Whilst I doubt Paul Phua and son Darren Phua will walk away from U.S soil scot-free, their punishment is set to be a lot less painful than was first originally thought after a U.S. Judge ruled that the bulk of the evidence used against them was inadmissible.

In a ruling that stretched 32 pages long, U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen said that FBI agents used false and misleading information to obtain the search warrants that eventually led to the arrests of eight people in connection with an illegal sports betting ring said to have focused on the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Q:The investigators’ suspicions that Phua was engaged in illegal sports betting at Caesars Palace may be borne out by the evidence recovered in the execution of the warrant, “ Leen said in a non-binding recommendation to a District Judge.” However, a search warrant is never validated by what its execution recovers.”;

It’s believed the FBI agents’ post-arrest reports failed to include the quite important point that the agents themselves deliberately sabotaged Internet access in the Caesars Palace villas before entering the premises dressed as Cable Guys full of covert surveillance equipment.