So what exactly were the police aware of and what exactly was Vladimir Granec doing. Well it seems certain now that the big clue as to what was going off was the incident in the London casino that was caught on camera. But the mere thought that one individual could be responsible for getting people on the inside and hitting casinos all over the world for millions is absolutely incredible.
But the authorities certainly did not see it that way as they persisted in going after Granec and he eventually was jailed for five years and fined in the region of half a million dollars for his crimes. Granec had a very successful and highly professional team at his disposal that were getting access to Roulette wheels after the casino had closed and then creating some sort of bias within that wheel. The casinos that were selected were the ones that had the weakest security systems and the most accessible places for his associates to hide.
Once the team had fixed the wheels then a big betting accomplice would go in and the rest as they say is history. So how much did Granecs organisation make in total? This is a very good question and one that cannot easily be answered. I have read numerous figures and reports regarding this and the sum of ten million dollars seems to be the commonly accepted figure but I think that this figure is pitifully low in my opinion.
If the authorities could prove and estimate ten million based on what evidence they had they what about all of the incidents that they could not prove. Also who is to say that Granec was not secretly masterminding coups long after his “retirement”. It seems logical to me that knowledge like this does not stay dormant for long and tends to get re-used or past on to others. Granec had a desire to hit the gaming industry and this is a desire that never goes away, I can speak from personal experience. If the total accepted figure of ten million dollars was not at the very least doubled by Granec and his team then I would be very much surprised.
It seems feasible to me that this figure could have been or could have ended up running to as high as fifty million dollars. This guy was the real “mr big” of Roulette and the “Godfather”. But what it proves beyond any shadow of a doubt is that the casinos can be got at by anyone who has the drive and the resources and not to mention the intelligence to do it.
Yes I know that deliberately fixing Roulette wheels is a criminal offence and this makes Granec a criminal. Yes I know that I should not be singing the praises of known criminals but you cannot help but admire a man with that much determination and guile.
Granec was a man after my own heart and I am sure that had I ever got the chance to meet the man that we may have had an awful lot in common. Granec hit the casinos just like I had done but many times greater. The man was in a league all by himself and I have no shame whatsoever in bowing to the King.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson
Author – “Killer Roulette”
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