[su_heading size=”18″ margin=”40″]The police have arrested three people, while they are searching for 43 other alleged members of a group that was involved in illegal betting on European Football Championship matches, via websites.[/su_heading]
In particular, the police officers of the Larissa Security Sub-Directorate, in addition to the two arrests, arrested a 51-year-old man who is allegedly the leader of the organization.
According to police, the 51-year-old had obtained an administrator password with increased privileges on an unlicensed betting website, through which they conducted illegal betting on behalf of third parties, on various sporting events. During the investigations , electronic data was found, which revealed information about at least 531 players in the illegal betting.
The total amount of illegal betting, as determined by the police, during the last three months, amounts to approximately 1,500,000 euros.
Since early 2016, the website's name had been changed, without changing its operating method, the relationships between administrators and players, and the access codes. Furthermore, its "platform" appeared to be operating legally in our country, with a license from a company whose title resembles that of a company operating in a foreign country, apparently for misleading reasons.
The bets on this website did not come from players who each connected directly to it, but the players addressed the 51-year-old arrested person and his accomplices, who managed special accounts and had precise management capabilities, such as creating player accounts, charging money-points to the players' accounts and entering predictions at their direction. The payment of the bet price and winnings to the players was made in private meetings between the players and the perpetrators.
In searches carried out in homes, business premises and vehicles, the following were found and seized: Two luxury cars, 34,795 euros, electronic-digital objects (cards) with details of 531 players and documents of a total illegal betting cycle, amounting to 1,465,150 euros, during the last three months, 271 genuine OPAP betting slips, for a total amount of 569,322.1 euros, from the period from April 2015 to June 2016, with corresponding and equal number of payment requests and copies of payment orders in the name of the 41-year-old accomplice, from which it emerges that the proceeds from illegal activity were legalized, a small amount of dried cannabis, a multitude of mobile phones and packages of mobile phone connection cards and a large number of evidence proving the criminal activity of the group members, handwritten notes, etc.
The arrested were taken to the Larissa Criminal Court Prosecutor, while investigations continue to determine the scope of the group's criminal activity and identify the other members - accomplices.
Source: huffingtonpost.gr
