Could this be a case of making someone pay for what they didn't eat or a case of double standard.
If you ask me they got what they deserved!!!
At first glance they want to claim a refund or chargeback after running out of luck, and I think this is quite common not only with gambling but trading too, were users blow their account and trigger a chargeback with their respective banks.
And as far as I know it's not double standard as the court as a duty to prove they got their guy beyond reasonable doubt before any conviction and this should have happened...just some poor write up by our journalists who might not have included the missing parts of the article.