Russian
Mafia Gambling Ring (of Multi-Millionaires) Exposed in US
17 April 2013
Stephen: It’s not surprising to see Cyprus is listed as
one of the countries where Russian mafia money was laundered…
By AFP, The Telegraph, UK – April 17, 2013
Thirty four people have been charged across the US over
alleged links to the Russian mafia and a high stakes illegal gambling circuit
catering to multimillionaires.
Clients, including Russian oligarchs, wracked up debts
worth hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars, the Justice
Department said in a statement on Tuesday night
Faced with the wrath of the Russian mob, the gamblers paid
up, the statement said, citing one client, who lost some $2 million (£1.3
million) and surrendered his plumbing company as payment.
The money was laundered through bank accounts and shell
companies in Cyprus and the US.
The charges “demonstrate the scope and reach of Russian
organised crime,” said FBI New York assistant chief George Venizelos.
“One of the principal defendants is a notorious Russian
‘thief-in-law’ allegedly directing an international conspiracy through Cyprus to
the US,” he added.
US Attorney Preet Bharara continued: “These criminal
enterprises were vast and many-tentacled, with one of them reaching across the
Atlantic to launder tens of millions of dollars from Russia to the U.S. via
Cyprus and in some cases, back again.”
The gambling was done through web sites and in high stakes
poker rooms in and around New York City.
Arrests were made in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and
Los Angeles, but at least four defendants remained at large.
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