Members of a gambling ring who used stealthy methods to cheat the Hard Rock Casino of Northern Indiana out of hundreds of thousands of dollars were discovered to have done the same to more than 10 casinos around the country, according to criminal charges filed June 2.
The six individuals cheated the casino out of more than $700,000 in less than one week in 2023, a substantial portion of the more than $1.5 million the group conned from casinos in five other states between July 2023 and March 2024, according to Lake Criminal Court records.
Jianchu Liu, Fuxiang Liu, Qingyong Zhang, Honghui Wu, Daiqi Wang and Yuhan Hu each face counts of felony theft and cheating at gambling.