A 52-year-old man from Erm has spent two years as a casino manager in Emmen stealing money from his employer by manipulating the roulette table. The man ran into the lamp in November last year. The judge imposed a community service order of 150 hours and a suspended prison sentence of one month.
The head office received signals that something was wrong with the payment of gambling winnings in the branch in Emmen. The images were viewed. It was noticed that the branch manager was already busy in the casino hours before the opening. The images showed that the man was mainly concerned with the roulette table.
The follow-up investigation showed that the sensors of the gaming table were taped over each time. This meant that money could be paid out out of sight. The man was heard and he confessed almost immediately. He was fired immediately afterwards. The man had just been divorced and had a girlfriend in Vietnam, he told the judge.
That friend needed money for her father’s surgery. When she ran out of money, love quickly cooled. “You may have been abused and that relationship was only aimed at financial gain,” the judge noted. The fifty-year-old not only lost a new love, but friends and relatives also turned their backs on him.
According to the former employer, an amount of 103,000 euros had disappeared. The civil court previously ruled that the man must repay 56,000 euros. A payment arrangement has been made for this. “As a manager you had an exemplary function”, the judge noted. On the other hand; the man has not been convicted before and he is paying off his debt.