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Casino Thefts on a Cruise Ship

In cooperation with the Casino management and others, have instructed their employees to divert and conceal some of the amounts from the gambling tables.

After more than two hours in the Council Chamber, San Remo Court sentinced  Robert Chin, Richard Greek and Angelo Barzelloni to 3 years and 6 months plus payment of court costs and custody,
Court sentenced Jerome from Genoa of 1 year and 4 months of imprisonment plus a fine of € 400), Paul Pochettino, from Turin of 1 year in prison, Tiziana and Levi from San Remo of 1 year imprisonment. Andrea Angels from Bergamo was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment and a fine of 300 euro though the penalty is suspended for probation.

Judge Paolo Luppi collegial has ordered the seizure of the money stolen from Greek, Chin and Barzelloni

According to the prosecutors accusations, Robert Breaker, Chin and Greek Barzelloni in cooperation with the Casino management and others, have instructed their employees to divert and conceal some of the amounts from the gambling tables. To carry out the orders, it was necessary to develop a false accounting of the proceeds from the MSC Cruises. The amounts not paid, in addition were secretly landed at the end of the cruise.

Everyone is challenged with the theft carried out by fraudulent means - such as filling out slips of false reporting. Regarding the amounts, figures varied, depending on the cruise, from 10 thousand. Chin, Greek and Barzelloni, are considered the initiators, organizers and leaders of the offense turnover.

According to the reconstruction of the investigators and as stated in interceptions, among other things, it seems that the three members were about to close with this type of activity and worried how to hide the money and traces of the crime.

It seems that they had been suggested to turn all blame to the Casino manager who is now under investigation.