Three British gamblers were jailed after being caught cheating at Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. Their cunning stunt allowed them to pocket £2.9 million simply by switching ten-euro tokens with 1,000-euro chips. Their simple yet effective scam even left the local authorities impressed.
Sajid Rashid, the brains of the operation, along with Qamar Hussain and Zahidul Haque Khan, all British nationals, has been given a sentence of 18 months to three years imprisonment. Even so, despite the prison sentences given to them, the three cheats have only been required by the Societe des bains de mer de Monaco (SBM) to pay £624,000 of their purportedly cheated winnings, thus getting away with more than £2 million.
The head of the Gaming Control Services of the Government of Monaco Christian Ollier said, "These gentlemen were very good."
The professional cheats scammed the Casino de Monte-Carlo for more than a year, from April 2014 to June 2015. The three had accrued nearly £2.9 million at the roulette tables. Their gambling scam was very successful that they were even given free accommodation at a nearby luxury hotel and have been lavished with drinks and food.
Sajid Rashid has used different aliases to be able to get entry into the casino. He is currently banned for life in London casinos after a gambling-related conviction in the United Kingdom. His partners have joined him at a later time. Zahidul is the only one who has denied involvement in the scam. "I just went to grab something to eat and smoke a cigarette," he said when confronted with the CCTV footage of him slipping tokens into his pocket.
The three men are expected to be imprisoned in Monaco's tiny prison which only has 20 cells.
The Casino de Monte-Carlo has had its fair share of scams since it opened almost 200 years ago. The scams were mostly perpetrated by gamblers or conmen who found ways of beating the system. Of course, the best cheats will be the ones you never hear about.
source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/three-british-conmen-jailed-after-7054742
i feel the anger of some of the regs in here when they have a problem with this issue, same thing when ethnic albanians with macedonian documents are giving all macedonians all over europe a bad name, but there u have it, our government is also corrupt, we r noo exception to the rule 
