Dollaro network helps Italian mafia to launder money

Italian Dollaro Poker Network is caught at the center of a scandal closely connected to mafia. On January 13 the police executed an operation called “game imitation”: in midmission 11 persons were charged with Luigi Tancherdi - their crime boss - among them. Restaurants, cars and gaming equipment were also distrained along with bank accounts which were frozen.

It later turned out that the gang had around 12 000 gaming tables under their control. Some slot machines with no bets’ limits and high repayments’ offers also went managed by the gang. This all became possible thanks to Dollaro network operators who didn’t pay any tax. The network stayed the course only because its servers were based in Florida and it could be accessed only through Romanian website Dollarobet SRL.

He has been found that every day around €11,5 million was transferred to the network's account (with €1 million assigned to mafia syndicate Ndraghenta). Luigi Tancherdi - the arrestee - and Nicola Fernia who was spotted in criminal rings last year, organized the whole affaire.

While wiretapping telephone calls the police found out that this kind of business now seems more profitable than even drug traffic.

Before the scandal actually occurred Dollaro Poker Network had enjoyed a reputation for a big number of recreational players. However, now its name has been disgraced as the police proposed a motion that the whole network had been initially created for money laundry.