The former security guard of the Washington Wizards Gilbert Arenas, 43, also known as “Agent Zero”, was arrested on Wednesday with six other defendants because of the information from the prosecutor, which was a highly developed illegal gaming business that operated from a luxurious mansion in Suburban in Los Angeles.
According to court files, a cornerstone of the illegal poker games was the domestic arenas, which belonged to Gable Drive in Encino. The authorities claimed that the arenas had rented the property, which was then staged as a high-end poker cave with pot-limit omaha, a game similar to Texas Hold. In the poker evenings, allegedly hired chefs, armed guards, servants and an individual felt table were shaped with the “Arenas Poker Club” in all-caps and black and gold.
The indictment alleged This one man in the crew, Israeli, suspected that organized crime figure Yevgeni Gershman commissioned women to work in the games. In return for tips, the women served cocktails, offered massages and offered poker players “camaraderie”, the indictment said. The women then had to pay a “tax” of 25% to 35% of their income just to be able to work at the games, the authorities claim.
The public prosecutor claimed that Gershman wrote an SMS to a woman in May 2022 to ask her in code: “Whether she was opened to prostitution in his illegal poker game in the fork House this evening.”
Attempts to reach arenas and Gershman were unsuccessful.
The arenas played 11 seasons in the NBA in teams such as The Wizards, Golden State Warriors and Orlando Magic. After his basketball career, he started a second act in business and organized A PodcastPresent No cold with Gilbert -ArenenAfter founding his own media company with the same name. He also shines a YouTube Weekly, which includes NBA personalities, and he has made several investments in real estate companies in California and Virginia. Arenen married French YouTuber and singer Melli Monaco this year.
The public prosecutor claims that the poker games have settled from friendly card games because the house had collected a “rake”, which corresponds to a percentage or a fixed fee of each pot. The games included about two dozen players and more than a dozen employees to facilitate illegal gambling, according to the prosecutors, and from September 2021 to July 2022.
The indictment is a complicated criminal company that focuses on the games. The 49-year-old Gershman allegedly treated everyday life, while the arenas allegedly rented rent and fees over an agent. The 51-year-old West Hollywood man Arthur Kats allegedly served as go-concrete, said the authorities and collected thousands of dollars of rent payments and the establishment of the house for game nights. According to court documents, four more were charged, including Evgenni Tourevski (48) from Tarzana; Allan Austria, 52, from West Hills; Yarin Cohen, 27, from Tarzana; and Ievgen Krachun, 43, from Tarzana. The indictment states that the crew allegedly managed the actual operations, recruited players and reworked money.
According to the authorities, Tourevski supposedly acted dealers and wrote contacts on his phone, which was stored as a “Frankie Poker dealer” and “dealer Poker” to arrange croupiers for the table games. Austria supposedly managed to ensure security, brought in armed guards and wrote photos of games while they were continuous. Cohen allegedly treated the finances and wrote to the others with data that show the amounts of the Rakes, “Tax” and expenses, the indictment says. Krachun allegedly worked as a “chip runner”, the victories and losses, distributed poker chips and paid workers persecuted, as court files show.
Federal agents searched the Encino -Herrenhaus in July 2022, the accusers, and the arenas allegedly tried to distance themselves from the poker games. In a petition to win back money confiscated in the raid, the arenas claimed that he was not about what was going on on the party. “
The indictment contains text messages that are supposed to be shown that arenas were aware of the Pot-Limit-Omaha games and that he was considering filming a YouTube episode at one of the games for its channelPresent Gils Arenathat has more than 1 million subscribers.
The accused are exposed to each of the charges for five years.
Tourevski, Austria, Cohen, Kats and Krachun could not be reached for a comment.
