| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | 30 Charged in Austin Gambling Bust
- Sunday, 4 Jun 2006
Austin law enforcement agents are reporting that more than thirty people were arrested and charged with illegal gambling activities. The illegal gambling operation was broken up and police suspect that the ring managed to make more than $15 million in illegal gambling activities in less than two years.
The police are worried and suspect that some of the money made from the illegal gambling activities was transferred to Pakistan. Documents seized at the various locations were the gambling ring operated, indicated as such. The bank accounts of the operators were also frozen and police say that the investigation could continue for up to 18 months, depending on the extent and scope of the gambling ring.
Police admitted that the bust of this gambling ring was the biggest that the department had ever dealt with. . The bust of the illegal gambling ring indicates that there are more players involved than suspected and the deeper that the investigators dig, the more dirt they expect to find. The investigation began almost a year ago when policed seized 733 illegal slot machines which offered eight liners which are against Texas law which only allows such gambling if the machines award non-cash prizes worth no more than $5 or 10 times the amount of a single play.
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