Gang's magnetic roulette ball con rolls casino for $700,000
A gang of conmen has won hundreds of thousands of dollars
from an Austrian casino by planting a remote-controlled magnetic
roulette ball on a table.
Police said the gang used a concealed device near the table,
possibly hidden in a watch, to create an electromagnetic field
and manipulate where the ball went to within three spaces.
They did not win on every spin, but improved the odds enough
to pick up $A688,000 over several weeks of regular visits
to a Casinos Austria gambling house in Velden, Carinthia.
The group, believed to be four Germans and an Austrian,
was found out after a croupier tried to pick up the ball but
it stuck to his cufflink.
