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01/16/2010		Online Casino Style: News Five More Arrests
Home History Games News Dictionary		Five more have been arrested and charged in the Petah Tikva District Court this week, increasing the number of Israelis who have been identified and arrested by authorities in the online gambling unfriendly nation. Meir Abergil, Yoram Zarfati, Yoel Schneider and brothers Reuven and Ezra Gavrieli are still currently in police custody, with formal charges filed. The most recent arrests come as just the latest batch of detainees following a police bust surrounding the illegal operation of an internet gambling scheme under the name Bet and Chat. According to the Jerusalem Post, the five have multiple charges against each of them including money laundering, facilitating illegal gambling, white collar theft, fraud, and tax embezzlement for their activities in the online gambling world, operating out of their home nation, where the industry is prohibited. Authorities maintain that between 2000 and 2002, they were in charge of the operation of 100 different computer programs backing their illegal network, with stations at kiosks, internet cafes, and lottery stations all over Israel. Prosecutors are hailing it as one of the most elaborate systems discovered to date, which allowed bettors to place their wagers with either cash or check. All of the funds were filtered through an online gambling site located in the Dominican Republic, with money laundering taking place in Cyprus, but all profiteers in Israel. Millions of ‘shekels,’ the local currency were made and exchanged, with all the gaming venues effectively turned into illegal gambling brothels, unbeknownst to the law. Reuven Gavrieli and an unnamed partner have been identified as the brains behind the scheme, with Motti Menashe playing a big part in the establishment of a company called Bet and Chat. The legal front served as a firm to distribute a ‘Net Casino’ computer program to gaming venues, which would allow the underground betting for those who knew how to use it. Assets seized by the police during their raids include vehicles worth thousands, as well as property.

01/16/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Five More Arrests

Five more have been arrested and charged in the Petah Tikva District Court this week, increasing the number of Israelis who have been identified and arrested by authorities in the online gambling unfriendly nation. Meir Abergil, Yoram Zarfati, Yoel Schneider and brothers Reuven and Ezra Gavrieli are still currently in police custody, with formal charges filed. The most recent arrests come as just the latest batch of detainees following a police bust surrounding the illegal operation of an internet gambling scheme under the name Bet and Chat.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the five have multiple charges against each of them including money laundering, facilitating illegal gambling, white collar theft, fraud, and tax embezzlement for their activities in the online gambling world, operating out of their home nation, where the industry is prohibited. Authorities maintain that between 2000 and 2002, they were in charge of the operation of 100 different computer programs backing their illegal network, with stations at kiosks, internet cafes, and lottery stations all over Israel.

Prosecutors are hailing it as one of the most elaborate systems discovered to date, which allowed bettors to place their wagers with either cash or check. All of the funds were filtered through an online gambling site located in the Dominican Republic, with money laundering taking place in Cyprus, but all profiteers in Israel. Millions of ‘shekels,’ the local currency were made and exchanged, with all the gaming venues effectively turned into illegal gambling brothels, unbeknownst to the law.

Reuven Gavrieli and an unnamed partner have been identified as the brains behind the scheme, with Motti Menashe playing a big part in the establishment of a company called Bet and Chat. The legal front served as a firm to distribute a ‘Net Casino’ computer program to gaming venues, which would allow the underground betting for those who knew how to use it. Assets seized by the police during their raids include vehicles worth thousands, as well as property.