{"id":476396,"date":"2026-06-04T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/476396\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:30:08","slug":"israeli-king-of-slot-machines-gambling-businessman-killed-in-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/476396\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli ‘King of Slot Machines’ gambling businessman killed in Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Bargig, an Israeli businessman and casino owner once known as the “King of Slot Machines,” was reportedly murdered on Wednesday in Prague<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bargig, 54, had been living and working in Prague for several years, Ynet reported, and had owned several gambling<\/a> businesses.<\/p>\n

Prague police confirmed that the matter was under investigation, and that someone else had been involved in Bargig’s death.<\/p>\n

Bargig had previously faced legal trouble in Israel, operating around 15 illegal casinos across the country from 2008 to 2014.<\/p>\n

He had been indicted for his crimes, but in 2020 was sentenced under a plea deal to only 15 months in prison, as well as a forfeiture of one million shekels and an additional fine of 350 thousand shekels.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Bargig had entered a dispute with the Israeli Tax Authority<\/a>, which claimed that records seized during his arrest indicated that his illegal gambling organization had earned him tens of millions more shekels than he had reported as his income.<\/p>\n

Another controversy associated with Bargig, as reported by iGamingToday, was that his wife, Nurit, had been an active-duty officer in the Israel Police<\/a> while he was being investigated for potential criminal activity.<\/p>\n

While no allegations of improper conduct were made against Nurit, police officials reportedly viewed their marriage as a concern, and she was eventually transferred to a different district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Bargig, an Israeli businessman and casino owner once known as the “King of Slot Machines,” was reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23140,8565,85,46,44331,43,5779,270],"class_list":["post-476396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-casino","tag-gambling","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-prague","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}