Several days ago, it was already known, that a suspected swindler had washed a seven digit sum of money at the casino in Melbourne. In total, the snowball system of the swindler created losses amounting to around 222 million Euro when converted.
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A 40-year old must stand trial in the next days in a court in Ireland. The man is accused of hitting a homeless man so hard, that he consequently died. Shortly before the attack, the life of the victim seemed to change for the better, after he had cleared away everything in the casino.
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Several days ago a British Court condemned a former wedding planner to several years in prison. The 44-year old had previously defrauded 24 bridal couples a five -figure amount. The former wedding planner financed her gambling addiction with the loot.
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Not only employees, but also managers participate regularly in gambling. This is the result of a new study from Great Britain, which was carried out on behalf of the online poker platform CardsChat. The concept of gambling was here broadly interpreted. But do CEOs have a problematic gambling behaviour more frequently?
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The Swedish Supervisory Authority Spelinspektionen has imposed a record-breaking penalty amounting to 20 Million SEK on Betsson. Converted, this amounts to the amount of nearly two million Euro. The Scandinavian Gambling operator contested this penalty and the Administrative Court has now been decided in their favour.
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The Las Vegas Strip has a new Casino- and Hotel-Resort: the glamorous Resorts World Las Vegas recently opened on the 24th.June . This is a highly modern casino with three affiliated hotels. Originally the Resorts should have opened years ago. The opening was postponed several times because of various rescheduling.
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As it was announced recently, the British gambling group Entain supports the children’s charity “Chance for Childhood”. Entain is an internationally active gambling group, which in 2020 generated a turnover of over 2,5 billion euro. To what extent is Entain engaged in the social sphere and which projects are especially encouraged?
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The football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic (39) was accused of illegal having a financial interest in betting provider Bethard. UEFA and FIFA rules forbid such participations with the aim of preventing betting and game manipulations. Some weeks ago we had already reported, that this could in the worst case scenario mean the end of his career for the Swedish professional football player.
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By now it should be generally known, that generally speaking, when gambling products are regulated, it is profitable for the state coffers. This can for example be seen happening in Greece. Here the process of distribution of licences is in full swing. By now they have already accrued a revenue amounting to millions in two digits, just from the distribution of licences.
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As it was announced a few days ago, Greentube is now also providing its popular slot machines online for gamblers from Switzerland. The subsidiary company of the gambling giant Novomatic announced in a press conference that it has expanded the cooperation with the Swiss Casino Du La Genève. But when can German Casino-friends also start playing online the popular Novoline-Games?
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Since some weeks there is the first Drive-Through-Casino in France. The local casino in the community of La Grande-Motte has thought out the so-called “Gambling Boxes“, in which the gamblers can simply drive through with the car and then play comfortably. However is there the potential for this idea to also catch on in other cities and especially in the German-speaking countries?
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The American gambling industry has apparently already recovered from the consequences of the Corona pandemic. A few days ago the US- Gambling Authority “American Gaming Association“(AGA) published the sector’s sales for the first quarter of 2021. According to the latter, the gambling industry solely made a turnover amounting to more than 11 billion US-Dollar in the first three months of this year.
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The gambling metropole Las Vegas is fighting its way back to normality step by step. The casinos have already reopened some time ago. Now the protection and hygiene measures will also be retracted. A few weeks ago, the Perspex shields on the casino tables of several casinos were removed. The desert metropole will soon host the first large event.
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A 54-year old US-American has threatened a casino in Florida with a bomb attack. The woman had previously lost a couple of hundred US-Dollar at the slot machines. Afterwards she was so furious that she made a call from her mobile threatening with a bomb attack. But what punishment now awaits the unlucky casino visitor?
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In Sydney in Australia cash could soon disappear, at least from the land-based casinos. As it emerged from corresponding media reports, leading gambling companies have decided on this together with the responsible Gambling Authority. This means that in the casinos of the largest city in Australia there could soon be completely cashless transactions.
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