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GAMBLING ON GETTING AWAY WITH IT | |  | OF&A was approached to investigate a major gambling fraud case, where marked cards had been used to commit a large-scale fraud at a popular Gauteng casino. The facts of the case strongly suggested that one or more of the card manufacturer's employees had had some involvement in producing the marked cards. |
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| The manufacturer requested that OF&A conduct several polygraph examinations on various staff members including the managing director, in order to attempt to establish the perpetrator's identity. OF&A began by examining the company's managing director who passed his polygraph examination conclusively. The OF&A team then proceeded to examine several other staff members, one of whom refused the examination, despite his alleged innocence. | Markings on playing cards are so subtle that only someone with the know how identify them. |
| | | He later consented to undergo the examination , during which it was observed that he was attempting to employ countermeasures in order to defeat the examination process. The OF&A examiner, familiar with these tactics, was able to obtain clear results from the examination which indicated that the employee was attempting to conceal his involvement in the crime. When confronted with his results, he confessed to having tampered with the printing plates to produce marked playing cards. Ockie, Fourie explains, "The suspect was subsequently handed over to the SAPS, and later repeated his confession to a magistrate. This legally validated the previous conversion that the OF&A team had obtained." |
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