Slovak National Lottery CEO charged with money laundering

[The Buzz]

The investigator of the National Criminal Agency (NAKA) has accused two people from the national lottery company, Tipos, of money laundering, police wrote on Facebook in a post dated 28 November.

From the newspaper, Slovak Spectator:

The people in question are head of Tipos Ján Barczi and head of the company’s IT department Miloš Prelec. Both had been detained during the November 26 police raid in Tipos, where potential evidence was collected.

They will not be prosecuted in custody, however. A judge of the Specialised Criminal Court did not accept the proposal of the prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor’s Office to take the two men into custody, the TASR newswire reported.

Leaked video shows Smer's former fin min talk corruption with Trnka Read more However, the prosecutor challenged the decision, meaning it is still not valid, the Specialised Criminal Court’s spokesperson Katarína Kudjáková said.

Meanwhile, the Finance Ministry, which is a 100-percent stockholder in Tipos, recalled Barczi from his post.
The changes should not endanger the ordinary operation of the company, said the ministry’s spokesperson Alexandra Gogová, as reported by the SITA newswire.

Read more here: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22273613/...entatives.html

[fullbenefit]

Wow, that's crazy.

[drifter8]

Welcome a board. We see thing happening like these in smaller fractions and dimensions. If someone shafts or shaves us - small, big or medium affiliates, there is nothing about it anywhere.

Anyone taking any action to WH, GVC bosses or to videolosts ( the best barbers around) ?

[Sherlock]

Tipos did not have affiliate program and they have no whales, so they had to launder the money. And it was real money laundering, not the thing from UK, where when player steals money from employer and loses it, then the bookie is accused of money laundering.

140 proxy accounts and 27M EUR was laundered at Tipos.

And the cherry on the top: as we talked in another thread about "registracna pokladnica", which is the mandatory real-time reporting of everything that is sold by any vendor in Slovakia to prevent tax frauds. Then this reporting comes with consumer lottery, where people can use the bills from merchants as lottery tickets to win prizes (and state has a sample for control). So the funny thing is that this lottery is administered by Tipos.