Former NBA basketball player Gilbert Arenas has been arrested following federal charges in the US of organizing illegal gambling at his California mansion.
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Gilbert Arenas, 43, has been charged with operating an illegal gambling business, mainly high-stakes poker games organized at his mansion in Encino, California. Arenas and the other defendants were arrested on Wednesday, including 49-year-old Yevgeni Gershman, said to be a suspicious figure in Israel's organized crime world. According to the charges, the illegal gambling business was operated between September 2021 and July 2022.
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