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Published: Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:57 An Italian gambling magnate Francesco Corallo known as “ the king of slots ” was arrested on Tuesday on the Dutch Caribbean half-island of Sint Maarten for his alleged involvement in an offshore tax evasion scheme, Italy’s Financial Guard said. Francesco Corallo was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes including tax evasion, money laundering and embezzlement. Among the five people arrested in Sint Marteen and Italy were Amedeo Laboccetta, a former member of the Italian Parliament, and Rudolf Baetsen, a Dutch national described as Corallo’s right-hand man in an indictment obtained by OCCRP partner Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI). The investigation centered on the activities of Atlantis-Bplus, recently rebranded as Starnet, a company controlled by Corallo operating video gambling machines and online gambling sites. After obtaining a license from the Italian gambling authority in 2004, the group quickly acqu...

Photo © Sinaya Wolfert. Above a “ soldier ” of the No Limit Soldier (NLS), crime syndicate out of Koraalspecht Curaçao. The No Limit Soldiers as numerous reports both in the corporate and the alternative media have shown is an amalgam, of Curacao street gangs, that morphed into what it is today. NLS today is an international crime syndicate that has transcended its street gang origins. However NLS’ muscle is still rooted in the streets, as it continues to draw recruit’s from localized street gangs in Curacao, Holland and Sint Maarten. In the internet age other types of recruit’s are being attracted, even non-street oriented person’s such as student’s and youngsters with jobs. They are in most instances sympathizers and “ fan boys and girls ” of the syndicate. NLS is a crime syndicate that is being used by certain narco-cartels based in Colombia. As a franchise that is, essentially a muscle and protection source when huge quantities of cocaine is being shipped from C...