File photo. Related: Blackjack debt leads to Romsey grow house A MAN who claims he started a cannabis grow house to pay back a gambling debt has been sentenced to three years in jail. Van Ri Nguyen, 60, was sentenced in the Bendigo County Court on Friday on one count of cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis,…
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Having allegedly kidnapped, illegally detained, and withheld the passports of three men, four Chinese nationals including a Poipet City casino owner were recently arrested by the Phnom Penh municipal military police. The Cambodia Daily reports that the casino owner, 55-year-old Ding Chunyaun, allegedly ordered a trio of accomplices to kidnap the three gamblers, all of…
Our family has earned a bad reputation and we live in stress because of my fathers gambling addiction CREATIVE: AAMIR KHAN Sir, Im a son of a great father but he has the bad habit of gambling. His addiction has caused him great losses and weve asked him to quit numerous times but to no…
Cambodian authorities have detained four Chinese nationals accused of a kidnapping and extortion plot involving gamblers whod rung up debts at a local casino. On Monday, Cambodia Daily reported that National Military Police had arrested Ding Chunyaun, the owner of an unidentified casino in Poipet City, along with three accomplices for the kidnapping of three…
Four Chinese nationals, including a casino owner, concocted a plan to recover about $1.22 million in unpaid gambling debts by kidnapping and extorting three Chinese gamblers, military police said on Monday. After one of the held men escaped, however, the alleged kidnappers decided to turn the other two over to authorities, then found themselves detained…
Adam Meyer the South Florida betting expert who called himself “the sports consultant to the stars” was sentenced to prison on Friday for ripping off more than $45 million from one of his clients. Meyer’s bizarre methods included pretending he was other people, adopting a bad fake Chinese accent and making up a story that…
A former J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm) employee who has been ordered to attend counseling for gambling has pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he stole more than $5 million from his employer to pay personal debts, New York prosecutors said. Lawrence Obracanik, 42, pleaded guilty to wire fraud affecting a financial institution on Thursday before…
Vietnams revolutionary founder Ho Chi Minh relied on lottery ticket sales to raise money for schools and hospitals during the war years. Now Hanois Communist leaders are looking to casinos, horse betting and modern lottery-ticket machines to do the same. So far this year Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued two decrees aimed at…
Vietnams revolutionary founder Ho Chi Minh relied on lottery ticket sales to raise money for schools and hospitals during the war years. Now Hanois Communist leaders are looking to casinos, horse betting and modern lottery-ticket machines to do the same. So far this year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued two decrees aimed at…