Unlawful Russian Casinos Just Part for the Gaming Picture
The old coal mining adage that ‘I owe my soul to the company store’ has taken on bizarre meaning with the recent discovery of an underground immigrant slave garment manufacturing ‘village’ in Moscow, replete with a casino that is equally illegal. The town that is underground held 200 Asian workers held captive against their will was discovered by police in just one more raid, one of hundreds to happen throughout Russia; a country where gambling, like vodka, seems to maintain the genes (and undoubtedly, jeans).
Just State Nyet to Gambling
Massive authorities raids of the nation’s underground (never literally) casinos have resulted in some 662 shutdowns up to now, while the Russian Interior Ministry’s Moscow workplace says that an ancillary special ops task force has slammed the doors on 4,747 joints that have been providing illegal moonshine alcohol, to your tune of 31 a great deal of booze in most. Your livers will thank you later, Russkies.
The casino cloud that is prohibition-style hangs over Russia started back in summer of 2009; that’s when gambling in all but four significantly hard-to-access designated gambling regions had been pronounced as illegal gambling areas. (We’re pretty booze that is suren’t unlawful anywhere there, but maybe absolutely nothing short of ethyl alcohol will give their jaded livers a jolt anymore).
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