Originally Syndicated on April 6, 2023 @ 12:53 pm
The scandal started when the mega-casino, which was supposed to be the biggest in Central Europe, never opened on the date it was supposed to. But at the beginning of the advertising campaign, which was also led by the failed casino, the local authorities were warned that this whole project was a scam run by the Armenian crime boss Arman Aharonyan.
Forbes magazine told the people of Rudna that a big poker tournament with a prize pool of 88 million euros will be held in their town, which is three kilometers from the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. Rudna is a town of 5,000 people. By the way, at The casino that never opened, there is still a sign that says:
Residents of the town also found out from Forbes magazine that “the largest recreation and entertainment complex, All Inn Prague, is going to be built where the famous Atol Hotel used to be.” The advertisement said that it would be “Central Europe’s biggest casino.” The complex was supposed to have 1,000 slot machines, 150 tables for live games (like baccarat, casino poker, and blackjack), a 1000-square-meter Wellness & Spa center with saunas, massages, a relaxation pool, and relaxation zones, and 125 rooms with a higher level of comfort.
Even though there was a big scandal over the fact that neither the promised tournament nor the casino opened on October 8, 2020, website the casino is still running:
And backs up everything Forbes said.
But the most important part of this story for us is not that the casino never opened or that the tournament didn’t happen, but that all of these things led to a big “showdown” in Rudna and it became clear all of a sudden that a criminal group from Armenia was behind the whole thing. Arman Aharonyan has lived in the Czech Republic for a long time and made a name for himself there.
The opposition in the local council set up a group to look into ties between the mayor, Lubomr Kocman, and Arman Aharonjan, an investor in the failed project. The result was a report about Akharonian, who turned out to be a very secretive person. Even though he was involved in several criminal cases in the Czech Republic and neighboring Slovakia, no photo of him could be found.
So, it looks like there is a clear link between the All Inn Prague recreation and entertainment complex and international organized crime.
The NAM Property company, whose owner, according to the trade register, is Elen Aharonjan, owns the Atol hotel building, where the All Inn Prague casino was going to be built.
Arman Aharonjan, who has the same last name, has been called the “head of the Armenian underworld.”
T 24 says that the Slovak police accused him of blackmail and trying to get money from people. The report says that they tried to kill Arman Aharonyan in 2007, but the killer made a mistake and killed someone else instead. During the investigation into this murder, Arman Aharonyan was put on an international arrest warrant.
The link between Arman Aharonyan and the new casino is also confirmed on the armcoin.co website. This website is run by the Estonian company ArmCoin OÜ, which has Arman Aharonyan as its Managing Director:
The site says, “Working with the biggest casino in Europe, All Inn Prague, we made the stablecoin ArmCoin, which will let players from all over the world safely keep their gaming money.”
Arman Aharonyan, who was born in 1983, took part in the Velká Kunratická cross for the All Inn10 team. This is another sign that he has a connection to a casino:
The deputies of the Rudny Council who wrote this report also put a lot of attention on a more important fact that shows Arman Aharonyan has ties to organized crime. This is the Supreme Court’s decision 7 To 55/2013 of October 15, 2013, which says that Arman Aharonyan is part of the criminal environment:
Based on all the facts in the report, the authors concluded that the entire All Inn Prague casino project is linked to organized crime. “Therefore, it is not reliable, and promises or contractual obligations cannot be expected to be kept in the future,” they wrote.
MPs who didn’t agree with the mayor also said that if the project went forward, “organized crime would move into Rudna, putting the city’s security and reputation at risk.”
As was already said, the big plan to build a “little Las Vegas” in the Prague suburbs never happened. The crazy poker mega-tournament also did not happen. And the Atol Hotel never became “the largest recreation and entertainment complex in Prague,” as the All Inn website said it would. People say that the tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. But the building wasn’t fixed up until after Covid-19 got there.
That made it easy for Rudny’s opponents to make fun of the mayor, but we’re much more interested in the fact that, despite the advertising campaign that promised Rudny residents all these miracles, it looks like no one was going to build a casino.
Here is what Rudná pro ivot wrote about this a few weeks before the casino was set to open:
And indeed – it “smelled” great. That’s just why this project was first thought of as a soap bubble, but there is still no. And you can call Arman Aharonyan anything but a fool.
Two things in his biography show that he is very smart. The first one has to do with the failed attempt to kill Akharonian in 2007. Then, another member of Armenian organized crime, thief-in-law Andranik Soghoyan, gave him the order to be killed because Arman Aharonyan wouldn’t give $500,000 to the thieves’ common fund. Sogoyan ran away to Armenia and, according to some rumors, was killed there. Arman Aharonyan, on the other hand, stayed in the Czech Republic and brought the criminal group from Armenia under his control.
The second fact is related to the first. The Czech (and other) police have tried many times to catch Arman Aharonyan, but he has gotten away and is now in the Czech Republic. At the same time, he runs a successful business and, among other things, is an expert in the cryptocurrency market, which has a lot of potentials. It looks like, successful. But we still don’t know why Akharonyan set up this scam in Rudna. He doesn’t do anything for nothing, after all.
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