Murder UIGEA Style
December 6, 2009
The authorities are looking at another angle when it comes to the murder
of Andreas Oscarsson. Police initially thought that it might be some sort of
a contract killing when they saw the crime scene, but now they are thinking
that it might actually be related to a poker deal that was hurt by the
passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, or UIGEA.
The founder of PokerListings.com, an online poker site, Oscarsson was found
in his home in Trollhättan, Sweden on August 3rd – having been shot six
times. It appeared that both Oscarsson’s father and his two year old son
were drugged or gassed in some way as they were both asleep when the murder
took place and did not wake when the shots were fired. They have also
discovered that a silencer was used when the murder took place – which makes
it look like a professional did the job.
Now it looks as though this may have something to do with the UIGEA in that
a poker deal that was supposed to go through did not go as planned.
Oscarsson was going to testify in court against Stefan Bengtsson who had
invested in the poker site. He was testifying as to his information
regarding racketeering charges that had been brought against Bengtsson. The
police are further convinced that the murder of a different Andreas
Oscarsson in the same town was a case of mistaken identity and when they
realized they had not killed the poker king they then weren’t after the real
one.
The police say that they have a suspect in the killing of the poker maven,
and that he is an employee of Bengtsson. This works with the fact that
another one of Oscarsson’s poker associates was shot and injured outside of
his home.
