The Government of Aragon has opened a sanction procedure against a hotelier of Chinese origin who had set up an illegal casino in the basement of his restaurant. The events occurred last Thursday, when National Police officers assigned to the Community intervened in their premises, located on Tarragona Street in Zaragoza. There, explains the regional executive, poker and the Chinese game Mahjong were being played “illegally”.
According to various information collected by the Police, in the establishment, called “Wuming”, sAnd He had set up a basement as a casino. Upon entering, the officers surprised nine Chinese citizens and certified that the basement was an illegal casino. During the search, 351 poker games, two sets of poker chips, 17 sets of Mahjon chips and 4,155 euros in 100 and 50 euro notes were seized from seven of the people who were on the premises at the time of the raid.
All this has brought the Aragonese Government initiated sanction proceedings against the owner premises through the Ministry of Finance, Interior and Public Administration, has launched a sanction procedure for very serious misconduct.
The basement, about a hundred square meters, It was equipped with four semi-automatic Mahjong playing tables and two tables with green mats for playing cards. Inside the room were a multitude of poker cards, as well as household items and furniture “typical of a casino,” according to the executive’s details. In addition, in the surrounding rooms, unused poker games and two semi-automatic tables with their corresponding sets of Mahjong game chips were located.
fake ID card
On the other hand, during an inspection in a bingo hall located on César Augusto Avenue, National Police agents assigned to Aragon requested documents from several people and discovered that one of them He identified himself with a DNI whose photograph did not match his.
This person explained that he was forbidden to access gambling establishments and that is why he had taken his brother-in-law’s card with which he introduced himself to the employee of the room. The officials verified that when the worker entered the computer program your brother-in-law’s identity details, He could access the room.
However, when he entered the identification data of the person who was asked by the police to identify himself, it was found that a ban on entry to gambling establishments in force.
For all these reasons, this person was arrested for using a false document. Likewise, a report was drawn up against the establishment for not having carried out the access control correctly, because Gambling law requires physical verification by photograph.
