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2021: Employee 1Xbet sentenced to 3 years in prison in the case of withdrawing 63 billion rubles from Russia

A court in Bryansk found a local resident guilty in the case of illegal gambling on the 1xBet platform. This was announced on October 20, 2021 in the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Bryansk Region.

A 40-year-old woman was sentenced to three years in prison with a sentence in a penal colony for illegally organizing and gambling over the Internet. In addition to the prison term, the convict will have to pay a fine of 800 thousand rubles. At the same time, she was granted a delay in serving her prison sentence until her child reached the age of 14.

An employee of the 1Xbet bookmaker was sentenced to 3 years in prison in the case of withdrawing 63 billion rubles from Russia

According to the investigation and the court, from October 2014 to May 2019, three residents of the regional center, who are on the international wanted list by October 20, 2021, in office premises in Bryansk organized the development of software for organizing and conducting gambling on the 1Xbet website, as well as technical support for this resource. Gambling was held without obtaining a license issued by the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the manner prescribed by law.

The accused accepted cash from citizens and then credited them to virtual accounts in the personal offices of players on the indicated Internet site, thus providing the latter with the opportunity to bet on sports events and play other gambling. As a result of the illegal gambling activities of the organized group, they extracted a total of more than 63 billion rubles.

The investigation against 1Xbet began in the summer of 2019. The security forces opened a case under the article on the illegal organization and conduct of gambling on the Internet, and then began searches. The creators of online casinos arrested property worth 1.5 billion rubles, but the defendants themselves managed to escape abroad.^[1]

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