Once a thief – Online gambling accountant/embezzler up to old tricks

Once-A-Thief-AccountantDespite what those Focus On The Family and/or ‘click your mouse and lose your house’ whackjobs like to claim, the gambling industry consists largely of decent, honest, hard-working, individuals with generous, open hearts. (Witness the way the industry chipped in to help relieve the recent suffering in Haiti, to cite just one example.)

That’s not to say there aren’t a few rotten apples in the barrel, mind you. Case in point, Viktoria (Vika) Zazoulina and Tatiana (Tanya) Kostiouk, a couple of Eastern Bloc accountants working in the online gambling industry who couldn’t always differentiate between company funds and their own private bank accounts. We can’t go into details just yet, but suffice it to say, one of them appears to be up to her old tricks. We will update this situation as new information becomes available, but in the meantime, here’s a bit of background.