Bank clerk steals 22 million SEK (2,2M€) and spends it all on LeoVegas

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News hit Swedish media today regarding a woman working at Nordea Bank who financed her gambling addiction by stealing from 28 separate customers for a whopping sum of 22 100 000 SEK (2,1m €)

She spent it all on Leo Vegas - where she clicked slots for over 300 000 000 SEK (30m€). She even won 2 million SEK and bought a car, then gambled the rest away.

During this _one year_ period of time, LeoVegas VIP-managers encouraged her to continue playing on their site, giving her Apple-products (Macbooks, iPads, iPhones), trips to Mexico - they even gave her free spins, bonuses, promotions not available to other players just to keep her playing.

She was sentensed 3.5 years in prison and to return all the stolen money to the bank.

This is fucking embarrasing, the largest casino site out there, not even raising an eyebrow, claiming to "care about their customers".

I really wish this was a joke, but it is not. Shame, shame, shame on LeoVegas and to be honest, this casino streaming-business has to stop. So many people are suffering from gambling addiction, it's not even funny. 

In before all "Everyone has their own free will" - well, you are clearly not even old enough to have your own bank account if you really can not see gambling addiction is a disease that needs to be treated. 

Have a fucking nice day.

Source (in Swedish)

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/krim/a/RxBdkA/stal-miljoner-fran-nordeakunder-far-fangelsestraff

 
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Best of it all is that the article is filled with ads from Casumo and Cherry. The press on their high horses.  9_9  

 
Prime example of how much casinos cares about gamble protection... Sure it all looks good with the possibilities to make depo limits and so on... But here we see, as long as the casino is making money they won't be checking up on gamblers.. Even less on "problem" gamblers.. 2,2mil €.. And not even a question about where the money came from... 

 
Tindertompa said:
Best of it all is that the article is filled with ads from Casumo and Cherry. The press on their high horses.  9_9  
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Sure we all know ads nowadays all come from your Cookie-history and what you search for and what kind of pages you visit. But I totally agree, it really do look bad if an article is about someone who's addicted to gambling and has commited crimes to continue playing, is also filled with casino ads. But the ads probably are funded by this womans losses on Leo anyway so... 8-)

 
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How is Casino streaming at fault here? This is an isolated case. Has absolutely nothing to do with streamers!
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It has none connection at all. I see casinostreaming as entertainment and not as an instruction. I have rules when I play online and one of them is to put a limit on my daily deposit amount or else I know it can go wrong and the fun is over. 

I once started a topic about how to play online and what to be careful about. One of them is never to play at a casino without limits, if casinogrounds fell like it, they can surely take some of my advices and make a topic about gambling online (a cop of coffee is the price if I once go to Sweden and visit some of the streamers).

 
I don't see how streamers can be blamed for this.

Casinos do attract high rollers. I once had a chat with the owner of one online casino and he told me how much "proper" high rollers deposit. I makes the likes of the Bandit, Rocknrolla etc look like amateurs (single deposits of £20,000 are regular deposits for these high rollers).

But having said all of that, Leovegas should have done a "Source of Wealth" request to verify the origin of the funds.

But having said that, if she works for a bank she probably has the knowledge to hide some of the stealing that a casino may not spot when doing due diligence checks.

 
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Not a streamers fault, not anybodies fault really, but certainly expenditure like that on a casino site should be flagged (probably why new checks ask what your job is and where your money for gambling comes from). Also, how did the bank not notice this money going missing over that period of time (assuming it was dripped out of the accounts over time).

 
This is the perfect crime if you are smart due to sweden barely never giving long sentences in prison. 

Steal the 2.2m euros, place the money abroad, crypto or something else.

Get sentenced to 3.5 years in a swedish prison which is not that bad actually. Like a kindergarten for adults. 

After 3-3.5 years, move outside EU and live a good life. 

Since the bank has paid all people who got stolen she wont have any people after her that want to hurt her either and since she goes down under outside EU like India, Brasil or something like that there is nothing the bank can do but she cant ever have a normal life in Sweden again though. 

 
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Not to give any tips but you can make your money dissapear with crypto exchanges etc.

Or you could literally cash it out and just hide it :tf:

 
@sunzzx Consider this a first and last warning. Writing about someone getting hurt is a serious matter and we will not tolerate that. I have edited your original post.

 
You shouldn't believe everything  you read in the papers online. Clickbait is a big(the biggest?) part of their income.  ;)

Don't think we heard the last of this yet. 

 
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I don't think that this woman has seen any streamers and thought to her self: I want to be like those guys!!!

But I do however think alot of viewers are teens or young adults that look up to many of the streamers and spend all their money on slots, or want to become streamers themselves. And that casino streamers - in the long run - get people into online slots and that streamers contribute to the problem, which is a big problem in Sweden. Gambling addiction even got declared as a disease in which you can get treatment for. I'm not putting the blame on anyone except this woman, but online casinos, streamers, Affiliate-partners etc needs to step up and  really  perhaps spend one of their streams talking about it. There's no hiding it, just look around in these forums alone. 

NS113 out *mic drop*

 
@Nosound113 just yesterday I know for sure @Smackdowncasino talked about gambling problems. Im pretty sure that, from what I've seen, every CG streamer, talks about it when the subject is brought up in chat. Don't know what more you want us to do. I would say streamers raise more awareness, than any non streaming affiliate site. And btw streaming is a very small market for the casinos, its still niche compared to others.

 
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