\nIt is not known whether the chocoholic syndicate\u2019s casino operation is linked to a sophisticated slots hacking scheme uncovered in June 2014 at the Lumiere Palace in St Louis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFollowing a suspicious amount of payouts at a handful of the Lumerie\u2019s slots, surveillance cameras spotted Russian national Murat Bliev playing the machines while covertly holding his phone up to the screen. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nVor Blimey! <\/b><\/h2>\n
Investigators suspected Bliev was streaming information via his phone to a \u201cwire room,\u201d where scammers, who had somehow found a way to crack the seed of the random number generators, would send signals to its foot soldiers on when to receive optimal payouts.<\/p>\n
Bliev\u2019s arrest and subsequent confession, when he tried to re-enter the US later in the year, revealed a sophisticated operation that may have been scamming casinos in the US and around the world for the better part of a decade, and is still believed to be in operation. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBut while that syndicate is believed to be based out of St Petersburg, Russia, our alleged choc-smugglers are largely Brooklyn-based Russian and Georgian criminals.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, with the arrest of Razhden Shulaya, the FBI is looking to bring the first ever federal racketeering charges against a so-called Russian \u201cvor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVor\u201d is a term that means \u201cthief-in-law,\u201d loosely translated into American Mob parlance as a \u201cmade man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A gang of sweet-toothed, casino slot-machine-hacking Russian mobsters was busted by the FBI in New York on Wednesday, its members charged with running a sprawling crime empire. In addition to\u00a0casino fraud, the outfit allegedly engaged in racketeering, narcotics, firearms offenses and murder-for-hire, as well as the theft and trafficking of over five tons of illegal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":52028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
FBI Nabs Russian Mob that Hacked Casino Slots and Stole Five Tons of Chocolate\u00a0<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n