Sunny Group and Microgaming, long-time partners in the online casino business, are now locked in a bitter dispute that could lead to legal action. Sunny Group, a Caribbean company, operates Casino Fortune, Miami Beach Casino, Mapau Casino and Flash Casino Fortune online casinos. Microgaming is one of the leading providers of Internet casino software.

In the first of two press releases issued this week detailing their complaints against Microgaming, Sunny Group said they discontinued using Microgaming software because they suspected that Microgaming's "percentages" were not fair in recent months.

Microgaming countered that they terminated the software licence agreement with Sunny Group because Sunny Group had not been settling its outstanding licensing fees for some time and its current licensing fees were severely in arrears.

In their most recent press release issued late last night, Sunny Group said they were physically denied access to the Casino Fortune, Mapau Casino and Miami Beach Casino servers by security staff of Mohawk Internet Technologies (MIT) on the Kahnawake Reserve in Canada. Sunny Group called MIT "a biased jurisdiction that operates as an agent for Microgaming" and described the incident as "a blatant sabotage by Microgaming and MIT, which will undoubtedly cost the Sunny Group millions of dollars."

"Microgaming continues to withhold the customer balances and that they have blatantly acknowledged this to the world in a press release dated March 27, 2002. This has caused Casino Fortune to lose a lot of business because some customers are blaming us for their balances seeming to disappear."

On Wednesday Microgaming offered their assurance that they are doing everything possible to assist the Sunny Group of casinos to finalise its data so that it can pay out its players.