A Viennese businessman who was banned from a casino in Vienna is suing the casino for allowing him to enter and place bets, after he bribed security staff to let him in.
Huseyn Köysüren, a taxi firm owner, was banned from the casino in December 2005 after he lost thousands of dollars playing roulette. He claims to have spent $150,000 in bribes in order to get through the door, and $1.3 million at the gambling tables.
Köysüren is now suing the casino for damages. He claims that the casino did not protect him from his own gambling addiction and caused him to lose even more cash. According to Köysüren, the casino staff should have refused his bribes and sent him away.
The casino's managment, however, has denied Köysüren's claims, saying that their entrances are watched by closed-circuit television and the casino staff is not allowed to carry money. The same rules also prevent them from stealing money from tables, which means that they would have nowhere to hide any bribe money.
In 2006, a court in Graz in the south of Austria awarded a gambling addict $750,000 in damages after a casino failed to spot that he was an addict and impose a ban on him. The gambler had lost over $3 million in four years.
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