{"id":316726,"date":"2025-11-30T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:31:13","slug":"couple-accused-of-cheating-with-spycam-to-win-a1-2m-in-australian-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316726\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple accused of cheating with spycam to win A$1.2m in Australian casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764447970_873_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2a7a0610-cdda-11f0-84e3-8b388d01c57d.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"NSW Police A hidden camera, batteries and casino chips photographed as evidence.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>NSW Police<\/p>\n<p>The couple are alleged to have used a hidden camera to read card games<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A husband and wife from Kazakhstan are alleged to have used a hidden camera and earpieces to fraudulently win nearly A$1.2m (\u00a3593,000; $784,000) in an Australian casino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The couple were caught after staff at the casino in the central Barangaroo neighbourhood of Sydney noticed Dilnoza Israilova, 36, wearing the small, discrete camera on her Mickey Mouse T-shirt, New South Wales Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She and her husband, 44-year-old Alisherykhoja Israilov, were then arrested. Police searched them and found &#8220;magnetised probes&#8221; and a mirror attachment for a phone allegedly used to rig games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The pair have been charged with dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage and remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">New South Wales Police said the couple had arrived in Sydney from Kazakhstan in October and applied for membership to the casino the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Over the following weeks, they made a number of visits to the casino &#8211; reportedly the Crown on Sydney&#8217;s waterfront &#8211; and accumulated winnings totalling A$1,179,412.50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This raised the suspicions of casino staff, who allegedly caught them in the act on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police said the spying devices were connected to the couple&#8217;s mobile phones, allowing them to capture and view images of the table.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764447970_873_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/84414500-cdda-11f0-84e3-8b388d01c57d.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"NSW Police A black Mickey Mouse T-shirt with a hole in the middle and an evidence card placed on it\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>NSW Police<\/p>\n<p>Casino staff noticed Dilnoza Israilova wearing the small, discrete camera on her Mickey Mouse T-shirt<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They also wore hidden earpieces, through which they allegedly received instructions on when to wager on card games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A New South Wales Police spokesperson told the BBC that they were not currently looking for any other person in relation to the alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a subsequent search of their accommodation near the casino, officers found other &#8220;gambling props&#8221;, high-end jewellery and \u20ac2,000 (\u00a31,750; $2,320) in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The pair appeared in court on Friday and were denied bail, New South Wales police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mrs Israilova is due back in court in February, the Guardian Australia reports, while Mr Israilov is scheduled to appear on 11 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Police The couple are alleged to have used a hidden camera to read card games A husband&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-316726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}