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Outlook: The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

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Richard Marcus

27/06/2022 GMT

The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

BBC World Service - Outlook, The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

Swindler turned security advisor Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed. And remembering Bilquis Edhi, the nurse who transformed Pakistani healthcare.

It started with baseball cards on the school playground. By 17 Richard Marcus was already gambling serious money in the big Las Vegas casinos. At 40, he had devised a scam that was making him millions of dollars as one of the world’s most prolific casino cheats. But it takes a thief to catch a thief, and now the same casinos he once robbed employ him to sniff out fraudsters.

Bilquis Edhi, the nurse and philanthropist who transformed Pakistani healthcare, died earlier this year at the age of 74. She spoke to Outlook in 2016 describing how she and her husband built up and ran the Edhi Foundation from a Karachi slum to be Pakistan’s most impressive social enterprise.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Maryam Maruf

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(Photo: Richard Marcus. Credit: Ingrid Infante)

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