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Eight professional poker players have been cheated out of millions of dollars, because their computers have been installed spy programs, so a fraudster has ’looked them in the cards when they played poker online.
It takes the Copenhagen police, who after four years of complex investigation now indict a younger poker player to have cheated his competitors.
in Only four cases has the police been able to make the losses up. The amounts total to just under four million dkk. But in the vast majority of cases, it has been impossible for the police to calculate how much loss poker players have had on the fraud. They believe that there is a large two-digit million range, but it can not be documented.
The accused poker player refuses guilty. In the next week keep the Copenhagen city Court a preliminary hearing in the case, where there should be dates on the retsdagene. According to the prosecutor, Glenn Hein is used in 10-11 days on the voluminous trial.
According to the indictment, which Ekstra Bladet has gained an insight into, had poker players no suspect that their computers were infected with a spionprogram.
It did, that the accused poker player could see modspillernes map on its own screen and get them to play and bet money on the normal show.
’It managed a unknown number of times, wherein he unjustly won the games and caused (the victim) and an unknown loss, or tried at it,’ reads the indictment.
In the four cases where the police have been able to calculate the unjustified gains, there was talk about a loss for the team on the 590.500 kr., 100,000 dollars, 140.000 – $ 280.000 dollars, a total of 3.979.684 kr.
The accused poker player has had physical access to the modspillernes computers. Several of them were his close friends, and he has, according to the indictment installed spionprogrammet, while he visited them at their places of residence.
the Police got the notification late in the year, in 2014, after one of the poker players had a suspicion the now accused’s conduct.
According to the indictment are the installations of spionprogrammet happened both in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Las Vegas or Berlin.
Pokerspilleren is prosecuted for fraud of particularly serious nature and according to the penal code, § 263 piece 2 and piece 3 to ‘gain access to others ‘saves’ and illegal interception. The fraud is, according to the indictment occurred from 2008 to 2014.
the Investigation has been hampered by a number of the foreign online-gaming companies that offered poker games, has been closed, so the police have been unable to get access to their data.
Lawyer Michael Juul Eriksen is the defence counsel for the accused poker player and says that he refuses is guilty of it all. He denies that he has installed spyware on its modspillernes computers.
The accused poker player is in parallel with the criminal proceedings have been sued in a civil case of several of the poker players with claims for compensation.
