Twenty-five sets of cards, Rs 1.6 lakh in cash, close-circuit cameras to keep vigil on gamblers, 92 mobile phones, iPad, three notebook computers, card dispensers and chips for cash were seized. The tourists were playing card games - Baccarat and Blackjack - when police raided the hotel. Gambling equipment, including card dealers, were shipped from India. Speaking to reporters, Chonburi police chief Kampol said, tourists checked into the hotel along with local Thai men and women and converted the convention hall into a casino. Many of those flown to Bangkok from Hyderabad told police they were told by organisers that gambling was legal at the Thailand hotel. Chikoti's aide, Madhav Reddy, whose name had cropped up in ED's probe, was also arrested along with Chitti Devender Reddy. Chikoti is already facing a FEMA probe by Enforcement Directorate's Hyderabad unit for alleged foreign exchange violations in his casino business in India and Nepal. A logbook with gambling credits of over Rs 100 crore were seized from the hotel hall, said Chonburi police chief Pol Maj-Gen Kampol Leelaprahphporn. Chikoti, whose gambling ventures straddle Goa's Big Daddy to Nepal casinos to money-spinner cockfights in south India, had converted the Thai hotel's convention hall into a makeshift casino, where gamblers from Hyderabad were flown in on a 'gambling & tourism package'.
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