Gambling Site the Front
An interesting development on the international front has the online casinos and
internet gambling sites potentially acting as a cover for a Russian spy
according to US authorities. The situation is just developing but the
information released by police indicate that Anna Chapman, a Manhattan
socialite, was arrested just this week for sneaking information to the Russian
government about the current Obama administration. She was arrested as a spy but
her rationale for her communications with Russia come down to a claim that she
was looking for the funding to start online casinos or an internet poker site.
Chapman has been very active over the past several months as she communicated
with investment firms in Russia allegedly looking for the capital to launch an
online casino poker site – even though internet poker is illegal in Russia and
nearly illegal in the US. The police are also looking closely at Chapman’s
current internet based real estate business that could be serving as a front for
her international spy work according to the US authorities. The socialite is
accused of using her status within Manhattan as a connection to gain information
about the Obama administrations plans as Obama enters the July summit meeting.
Chapman sticks to her story that she was attempting to launch an online casino
poker site that would have matched her real estate business (despite claims from
others within the industry that she has little to no real estate knowledge). She
is under arrest though and more information will be released in the coming weeks
as the police continue to interrogate Chapman and more closely investigate her
situation and connections to Moscow and Russia as a whole. |