Switzerland: stolen tickets reappear in casinos

Switzerland: stolen tickets reappear in casinos


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SuisseTickets stolen in bancomats reappear at the casino

The Swiss authorities got their hands on young Dutch people who have managed to exchange ink -stolen tickets stolen in distributors in Zurich.

The young people played little money to be able to exchange tickets marked with immaculate tickets (illustration image).

The young people played little money to be able to exchange tickets marked with immaculate tickets (illustration image).

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Two young Dutch people, 20 and 22 years old, were dealing with the Swiss police after having gone to play in the casinos of Zurich and Schaffhouse, at the end of 2022. Their fault? They loaded cash cards from the Casino with cash stolen two weeks earlier during the attack on two explosive bancomats, in Aesch, in the canton of Basel-Campagne. The tickets had been automatically smeared with ink during the breakage, which made them, in theory, unusable.

According to several judgments of the Federal Criminal Court, relayed by the “Tages-Anzeiger”, the so-called players have yet succeeded in Duper the Casino de Zurich for several tens of thousands of francs. The machine which made it possible to recharge the cash cards accepted the stained tickets.

Five other young people try their luck

Young Dutch people have repeatedly used charging machines to sell non -valid tickets. They then used their card to play a few hundred francs before praying the casino to return the balance of the card. They left with brand new tickets. One of the defendants wanted to do the same manipulation to Schaffhouse, but there, the tickets were refused by the machine.

By dint of repeating the maneuver, the two men were still pinned. Later, five other young people from the Netherlands were also apprehended in Zurich for having tried the same line, with tickets from the Bancomats of Aesch, proven scientific police. Young people denied being involved in the breakage. They were only mandated intermediaries to “whiten” money, they said. Some have done several months in prison, others get out of fines.

The robberies of banknotes distributors in Switzerland have multiplied for ten years. Several cases made the headlines last year in the cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel and Jura. Since 2018, federal police have recorded more than 300 attacks on bancomats. About a third of these acts were committed using explosives.

(JBA)



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