Vienna Casino: How criminals can cheat whilst playing Roulette

At the beginning of the month, we had reported that a Chinese man had tried to defraud the Vienna Casino at the Roulette table. The perpetrator together with two other accomplices had acquired the sum of 118,000 Euro from this. Now further details about the cinematic roulette rip-off. In this article we will reveal how the perpetrators managed to defraud the city casino in the Austrian Capital City.

On the 2nd. March we had published an article on GambleJoe with the title “Vienna: Chinese wants to defraud the casino during Roulette”. Many users of our community showed interest in the comments about how the scam could function in detail during Roulette. Unfortunately, at the time of publication there was still no information available. This has now changed, however.

Vienna: How did the fraud at the Roulette table happen exactly?

Till now neither the Vienna investigative authorities nor the casino have released information about how the fraud at the Roulette table happened exactly. But the Austrian newspaper “Heute” has published an article and revealed these details. 

The Chinese man, together with his two accomplices seems to have searched for a roulette table where there was not much going on. They also waited till the croupiers on the neighbouring table had finished their shift. It was at 4am when the criminal trio started fouling around. What happened afterwards seems more as a Hollywood classic like Ocean’s Eleven than the daily routine in a Vienna Casino.

One of the men took out the hand driller he had hidden under his jacket and drilled a small hole in the glass dome of the automatic Roulette table. The two other accomplices seem to have positioned themselves in a way that the deed could not be filmed by the surveillance cameras.

The main perpetrator than inserted a thin wire through the previously made hole. The aim was to make the dome stop in a determined area of the wheel. The plan seems to have worked out, as the Chinese man together with the other two accomplices managed to rip off 118,00 Euro from the casino.

How was the scam discovered?

Probably it was the greed of the perpetrator which finally became his downfall. By time the casino personnel became aware of the man who was winning always more and very high wins at the Roulette table. Besides this, on the 5th. February there was a malfunction in the Roulette slot machine. The equipment seemed to register an error and an employee had to address the problem.

When they were checking the video material which was available, they noticed that the men had repeatedly betted on the one and only number, that is they placed their bets in the same number area. The police were called in at this point. A day later the latter apprehended the main perpetrator when he tried to gamble in the casino again. The Landeskriminalamt Wien is investigating this case. The 47-year-old Chinese man has been remanded in custody in Austria. A search is being done for the two other accomplices, a Spaniard and a North African.

The arrested man’s lawyer, Iris Augendoppler, gave a statement to Heute.at on behalf of her client:

“My client was not involved in the drilling of the machine (…).”

Conclusion

The criminal “Roulette-Trio” succeeded to defraud the casino the sum of nearly 118,000 Euro. Most probably it was the greed of the man that let the cat out of the bag and thus be arrested as the main suspect. The method used by the dishonest players showed a certain degree of professionalism, which suggests that they are serial offenders.

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