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Israeli
Online
Gambling
Update
February
10,
2008
The
bust
last
week
that
ended
up
in
the
arrests
and
detention
of
several
online
gambling
participants
has
gotten
even
more
interesting
over
the
past
week.
There
were
seven
people
arrested
and
18
detained
for
operating
illegal
online
gambling
sites
that
were
also
laundering
money.
The
police
said
that
they
were
believed
to
be
making
millions
of
shekels
per
year
with
their
online
gambling.
However,
now
it
seems
that
there
was
more
than
just
ordinary
online
gambling
going
on.
They
were
also
“influencing
the
results
of
games.”
Four
of
the
suspects,
Aryeh
Avraham,
Yossi
Ben-Shitreet,
David
Hachmon,
and
Eliran
Oved
had
their
remands
extended
until
next
Sunday.
They
say
that
the
bets
were
placed
through
regional
and
group
leaders,
and
that
each
online
gambling
got
their
own
ID
number
which
allowed
them
to
log
in.
You
were
given
the
number
to
the
“closed
list”
once
you
had
already
made
significant
down
payments
to
the
site
to
cover
their
bets.
They
were
using
the
site
to
allegedly
launder
profits
from
other
illegal
businesses
that
they
were
running.
They
believe
that
in
addition
to
the
online
gambling
site,
they
were
also
involved
in
prostitution,
drug
dealing
and
loan
sharking.
Players
could
place
bets
in
amounts
ranging
from
hundreds
to
tens
of
thousands
of
shekels
per
week.
They
say
that
one
of
the
suspects
had
already
been
charged
and
convicted
on
counts
of
bribery
and
threats
against
the
Hapoel
Beersheba
soccer
team
in
an
attempt
to
influence
the
results
of
the
matches.
The
sweep
was
handled
by
the
International
and
Serious
Crimes
Unit
working
with
the
Gidonom
Unit
–
which
is
part
of
the
Israel
Police’s
Lahav
433
unit
as
well
as
their
equivalent
of
our
FBI.
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