In South Dehli, one of  11 revenue districts in India‘s capital city of New Delhi, police raided a sprawling farmhouse on Tuesday night where an illegal casino was reportedly operating and some 30 individuals were arrested. At the 13-acre farmhouse on Dera Mandi road in south Delhi, which according to New Delhi Television (NDTV) is also frequently used for TV shoots, police seized 13 luxury cars, casino chips amounting to more than 3 crores (approx. US$468K), hookahs and a large […]

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Thursday saw an announcement by the Judiciary Police of Macau that they have arrested 8 members of an alleged loan sharking group from mainland China who had been targeting gamblers in the lesser known and smaller casinos in the ZAPE strip area. Teledifusão de Macau reports that authorities believe the group of mainland Chinese loan sharks may number as high as 60 and have been operating for over a year. Victims of the ring who could not pay their debts were allegedly illegally […]

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On Tuesday the authorities in China announced that they cracked a big cross-border online gambling ring that handled $78 billion in bets from almost 1 million customers in China alone. According to local media reports, 98 suspects were arrested and more than 500 illegal online gambling sites were closed. The investigation, called Operation 109, started at the end of last year and rounded up in July 2015. The mastermind operating the illegal gambling syndicate is a 40 year-old man named […]

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Two men being held in Israel after their arrests in July, and a U.S. citizen believed to be hiding out in Moscow have been charged with stealing the contact details of up to 100 million customers of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. and others in the largest illegal data harvest known to date by cyber-attack. Named in the indictment were Ziv Orenstein and Gery Shalon, who were earlier arrested in Israel and held without bond. The other defendant who is still […]

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Macau’s casino industry used to enlist special junket operators whose main role was to target VIP gamblers from Mainland China and bring them over to Macau’s casinos. These VIP gamblers accounted for more than fifty percent of revenue generated by Macau’s casinos. Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdown has scared away the majority of VIP gamblers and junket operators have reported a steep decline in business. Casinos in neighbouring countries like South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam have been quick to seize this […]

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The Manhattan U.S. Attorney announced on Tuesday that three men in Florida and Israel had been charged in a penny stock scam with international reach. Three Israeli residents, one an American citizen who remains at large, allegedly ran a “pump-and-dump” stock scheme that laundered proceeds through a shell company in Cyprus. The crimes could go as far back as 2011. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil lawsuit against Gery Shalon, Ziv Orenstein, and Joshua Samuel Aaron (aka Mike […]

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Late Wednesday evening, the Local 54 union of UNITE HERE moved forward with protest plans and created a traffic sit-in in front of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort. The protest is the continuation of efforts by casino workers to receive benefits taken away by the incoming owner, Carl Icahn. Around 70 people were arrested after blocking traffic at the intersection of Virginia and Pacific avenues in front of the casino. Local employees as well as individuals associated with casinos in […]

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Thursday—June 11, 2015 was a busy day for Rockland, New York District Attorney Thomas Zugibe when “Operation Rock Bottom” proved useful in eight arrests. The 10-month long investigation focused on Internet off-shore gambling websites and high-interest street loans. Investigators started the operation to crack down on mob operated gambling and loan sharking operations in New Jersey, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Investigators have seized illegal gambling records, over $750,000, and computers. The seizures were carried out with multiple warrants issued […]

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More than 1,000 individuals have been arrested for their part in a network offering online gambling in China, according to the state news agency Xinhua.  A raid on the network resulted in the massive arrests as well as around $53 million in cash frozen in connected bank accounts. From June 2014 to December 2014, police worked on the case, arresting those involved along the way. 570 individuals have been put in detention according to police from the southern province of […]

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