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Swedish Poker Defendant 4

 

Charge:

"Fraud (passing bad checks, documents, casino, bankrupcy, etc.)"

Sentence:

Probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Sweden

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Stockholm

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"On February 18, 2016 Sweden's Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm acquitted five codefendants who had been convicted in June 2014 of committing serious fraud in February 2013. The five designed a computer program that on its own can play poker online, a so-called poker robot, or bot. Their convictions were based on the prosecution's case that they committed serious fraud by inducing alltogether, about 25 000 people to play poker against the robot on the Swedish Spel gambling site. According to the prosecutor had the procedure entailed gain for the defendants of US$586,000, and the corresponding harm to plaintiffs. After their convictions the District Court sentenced the five defendants to probation. Both the prosecutor and the defendants appealed against the judgment. In acquitting the defendants the Court of Appeal ruled that through misleading persuaded a large part of the 25,000 plaintiffs to play poker on the poker robot. However, it is not proven that the procedure entailed harm to the plaintiffs or gain to the defendants in the manner required for liability for fraud. The Court of Appeal has considered that it is the question of a game where the outcome in substantial part due to chance. It is not proven that the software has been designed so that it has had a greater ability - skilful been - other than the defendants themselves when they have played without software. Chances of profit for the injured party has not been less because the defendants used the software at the game. (Account in part from Press Release by The Court of Appeals, Feb. 18, 2016.)"

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On February 18, 2016 Sweden's Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm quashed the convictions of the five codefendants and ordered their acquittal on the basis there was not sufficient evidence that the defendants "entailed harm to the plaintiffs," or that the threshold for fraud was reached despite it being proven the defendants utilized artificial intelligence."

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Svenska Spel Swedish Bot Ring Fraud Conviction Overturned on Appeal, By Philip Conneller, www.cardschat.com, February 23, 2016"

Information Location 1:

https://www.cardschat.com/news/19319-1931

Information Source 2:

"Poker Bot Defendants Found Not Guilty of Fraud by Swedish Court of Appeals, By Jason Glatzer, Powernews.com, February 23, 2016"

Information Location 2:

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/02/poker-bot-defendants-found-not-guilty-of-fraud-24140.htm

Information Source 3:

"Acquittal judgment on the game of poker robot, Press Release, Svea Court of Appeal, Feb. 18, 2016"

Information Location 3:

http://www.svea.se/Om-Svea-hovratt/Nyheter-fran-Svea-hovratt/Frikannande-dom-i-mal-om-spel-med-pokerrobot/

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