Casino affair (Lower Saxony)

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As casino affair are Lower Saxony scandals in the 1980s and 1990s respectively. This meant that private casino - concessions were not renewed in 1989 and 1990, the suspicion of manipulation in the 1990s led to the suspension of several casino employees.

Hanover / Bad Pyrmont

The private operator Marian Felsenstein , who had run down the Hannover / Bad Pyrmont casino, caused a veritable scandal for the Lower Saxony CDU / FDP government in 1988 with the casino affair. The casino had gone bankrupt because Felsenstein used the casino revenues to indulge his own gambling addiction .

Wilfried Hasselmann had as for supervision charge on October 31, 1988 Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Ernstalbrecht under pressure from the opposition led by Gerhard Schröder ( SPD resign) because he accepting donations had concealed. The Prime Minister's wife, Heidi Adele Albrecht, also came under fire from time to time because she asked casino manager Marian Felsenstein for money for humanitarian purposes and thanked him for donations.

As a result of these processes, the casinos in Lower Saxony were nationalized.

Hittfeld

There were press reports about a fraud scandal with a criminal impact in the years 1993 to 2000 in the Hittfeld casino . Certain employees are said to have served themselves there. A roulette wheel is said to have been manipulated. It was also suspected that croupiers had allowed late betting and paid out excessive winnings. However, the public prosecutor's office in Lüneburg has closed its case on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust due to a lack of evidence. In 2000, the management of Spielbanken Niedersachsen GmbH , Hanover, suspended 13 employees from duty.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How CDU and FDP want to use the Lower Saxony casino millions in the future , article in Spiegel from September 12, 1988; Retrieved February 21, 2010
  2. ^ Fraud in Spielbank Hittfeld - employees suspended , article in der Welt from July 10, 2000; Retrieved February 21, 2010