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Magnetic roulette ball con beats casino
By Michael Leidig in Vienna
12:01AM GMT 15 Jan 2003
A gang of conmen has won hundreds of thousands of pounds from an Austrian casino by planting a remote-controlled magnetic roulette ball on a table.
Police yesterday said the five-strong gang used a concealed device near the table, possibly hidden in a watch, to create an electromagnetic field and manipulate where the ball went to within three spaces.
They did not win on every spin, but improved the odds sufficiently to pick up £250,000 over several weeks of regular visits to a Casinos Austria gambling house in Velden, Carinthia.
The group, believed to be four Germans and an Austrian, were only discovered when a croupier reached across the table to pick the ball up and it stuck to his cufflink.
He immediately notified his superiors, but by then the gang had fled.
Analysis of surveillance camera footage indicates that the gang was made up of one gambler, two people controlling the roulette ball and two more keeping watch and trying to distract attention from their associates. Officials believe they may have struck elsewhere, moving on every three months to avoid arousing suspicion.
Police and the casino management were yesterday trying to work out how the gang managed to swap their ball with the casino's. Once they had done so, they could take advantage of it again and again as the balls are kept in a safe overnight and returned to the same table.
Leo Wallner, the head of Casinos Austria, said: "I am pleased that we have exposed this con and can now act against it." Magnetic field detectors are to be installed at all Casino Austria properties.
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Magnetic roulette ball con beats casino
By Michael Leidig in Vienna
12:01AM GMT 15 Jan 2003
A gang of conmen has won hundreds of thousands of pounds from an Austrian casino by planting a remote-controlled magnetic roulette ball on a table.
Police yesterday said the five-strong gang used a concealed device near the table, possibly hidden in a watch, to create an electromagnetic field and manipulate where the ball went to within three spaces.
They did not win on every spin, but improved the odds sufficiently to pick up £250,000 over several weeks of regular visits to a Casinos Austria gambling house in Velden, Carinthia.
The group, believed to be four Germans and an Austrian, were only discovered when a croupier reached across the table to pick the ball up and it stuck to his cufflink.
He immediately notified his superiors, but by then the gang had fled.
Analysis of surveillance camera footage indicates that the gang was made up of one gambler, two people controlling the roulette ball and two more keeping watch and trying to distract attention from their associates. Officials believe they may have struck elsewhere, moving on every three months to avoid arousing suspicion.
Police and the casino management were yesterday trying to work out how the gang managed to swap their ball with the casino's. Once they had done so, they could take advantage of it again and again as the balls are kept in a safe overnight and returned to the same table.
Leo Wallner, the head of Casinos Austria, said: "I am pleased that we have exposed this con and can now act against it." Magnetic field detectors are to be installed at all Casino Austria properties.
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