A story that seems drawn from a bad web-series about poker, but which is nevertheless very real: 34 poker players are involved in a case of fraud! People are accused of racketeering, extortion, money laundering and illegal private parties in the United States.
Among the persons charged, many Russian, Ukrainian and American players including Justin ' Boosted I Smith, Vadim Trincher and former pro Full Tilt Peter 'Nordberg' Feldman.
Here is the complete list of the 34 people accused of having links with the Russian mafia:
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Vadim Trincher
Anatoly Golubchik
Michael Sadler
Stan Greenberg
Illya Trincher
Hillell Nahmad
John Hanson
Noah Siegel
Jonathan Hirsch
Arthur Azen
Donald McCalmont
Dmitry Druzhinsky
Alexander Zaverukha
Alexander Katchaloff
Anatoly Shteyngrob
Ilya Rozenfeld
Peter Skyllas
Ronald Uy
Nicholas Hirsh
Bryan Zuriff
Moshe Oratz
Kirill Rapoport
David Aaron
Justin Smith
Abraham Mosseri
William Edler
Peter Feldman
Eugene Trincher
Edwin Ting
Molly Bloom
William Barbalat
Yugeswar Rajkumar
Joseph Mancuso
It is therefore Tuesday 16 April that these arrests were made by the division of the FBI devoted to organized crime. Arrests have particularly carried out in several large U.S. cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia.
According to NBC 4, "members of the organization used a sophisticated device of money laundering to transfer tens of millions of dollars of profits from the game of the former Soviet Union through Cyprus companies-screens for the benefit of several investments and corporations, to the U.S.A".
The original indictment explains that it is a: "a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in crimes including the Organization of illegal gambling, of money laundering and of extortion".
In closing, it should be noted that the persons named in this article are only accused. Now, they are innocent until proven otherwise is made.
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