Status: 01/29/2016 16:17 clock
During a raid in Schleswig-Holstein and eight other provinces were on Thursday 650 police on duty. They searched 114 residential and business premises on suspicion of manipulating slot machines in Germany. . One of the main suspects was arrested at the request of the prosecutor’s office in Kiel, the State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) said on Friday
raid because manipulated slot machines
Schleswig-Holstein magazine – 01/29/2016 19:30 clock
With a large raid is the police action against fraudsters who allegedly manipulated with a software slot machines – the alleged main perpetrator was arrested
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Less gains and tax fraud
The arrested man is bought abroad software, changed and then spearheaded vending machine and gambling hall operators have sold throughout Germany, said a spokesman LKA. The searches have been directed against both the distributor and the user manipulation software. For years the criminal group allegedly operates nationwide and “substantial profits” procured. ATMs, on which the software is installed, pay less profits to the players. In addition, the software can manipulate the results of the equipment down, so that the control amount of slot machines positioner declining, it was said from the LKA
evidence:. Storage media manipulation software
At the height of profits made the LKA initially no information. All evidence must now be spotted and then evaluated. In Schleswig-Holstein, the police had seized, among other things two sharp firearms. In all Länder concerned extensive evidence had been secured. After LKA information can include storage media manipulation software for gaming machines
Manufacturer:. Device “with current software release” is not affected
The equipment manufacturers Löwen Entertainment in Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate) informed only by the close cooperation of the company with the State Office of Criminal Schleswig-Holstein is “another blow to organized crime possible” become. “Similarly as in other cases in the past was only where gambling hall operators have illegally cooperated with the manipulateur, ever become the illegal manipulation of Gambling machines possible.” Equipment of the company “with the current software release” are not affected by such attempts at manipulation. The company did not comment explicitly on whether devices with older software has been tampered with by criminals.
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