The alleged head of Costa Rica-based online sportsbook Sportsbetting.com has been forcibly returned to the United States to face nearly decade-old illegal gambling charges.

On Thursday, Washington state media outlet The Chronicle reported that Ronald Ehli (pictured) had made an appearance in Lewis County Superior Court to face charges of second-degree professional gambling and unlawfully transmitting or receiving gambling information.

Ehli was originally charged way back in 2008 after an agent from Washington State Gambling Commission’s Criminal Intelligence Unit placed bets on Sportsbetting.com. When the agent withdrew his winnings, the check he received was signed by Ehli and drawn on an account belonging to Ehli’s check-writing outfit EZPay Financial Services.

The agents paid a visit to EZPay’s offices in the little town of Chehalis, WA, where they interviewed a couple staffers and seized a computer. After studying the digital data, police seized a total of $4.9m from EZPay accounts based on their belief that the money was the proceeds of illegal sports betting.