Update: US Department of Justice Claims No Accounts Have Been Unfrozen

Full Tilt claims something else According to the latest announcement from the US Department of Justice, no accounts have been unfrozen in order to enable the companies indicted in the Black Friday actions to payout their US players' balances. The statement was reportedly made to deny claims that certain accounts have actually been unfrozen. Namely, it was specified by the US Attorney's Office spokeswoman that any action related to unfreezing of the accounts would be announced in an official press release – none of which appeared so far. On the other side, a source from one of the impacted companies, Full Tilt Poker, claimed that one of the company's Irish corporate bank accounts that had not been the subject of the US indictments had been frozen by the bank, and that the US enforcement authorities had contacted the bank to get the account in question freed, which has been done by now. The US Attorney's Office couldn't confirm this claim, whereas The Bank of Ireland refused to comment. Asked whether the indicted companies' accounts will be unfrozen in order to facilitate players' payouts, the US Attorney's Office spokeswomen said that she is "unable to speculate about future events."