Salman Behbehani, a poker participant with thousands and thousands in cashes, was convicted earlier this week on drug smuggling associated prices and sentenced to spend six years in jail.
The Balearic Provincial Court docket additionally imposed a €30,000 positive on the California poker participant who comes from one of many richest households in Kuwait, in accordance with Forbes. Behbehani, 37, was arrested on July 16, 2021 on the Ibiza airport upon flying a non-public jet carrying round 30 folks to the Spanish island from Las Vegas.
Poker Participant’s Crime
Officers from the Tax Company and Guardia Civil Border Patrol, who met the poker professional on the airport, used scanners to detect a suitcase full of medication and a major amount of money. Investigators present in his suitcase 315 grams of cocaine, 715 grams of Tusi, 705 grams of cannabis, 80 grams of MDMA, and a few hashish and LSD.
Behbehani, who has $3.3 million in reside event cashes per The Hendon Mob, was convicted of being in possession of a giant amount of gear. He initially confronted as much as 9 years in jail, however the court docket settled at six years.
The Public Prosecutor’s Workplace started its drug-smuggling trial in late February. Behbehani, a recognized DJ, testified on his personal behalf but it surely was inevitably decided by the court docket he dedicated a criminal offense that may land him in jail for fairly a while. He can nonetheless enchantment the conviction with the Civil and Prison Chamber of the Superior Court docket of Justice of the Balearic Islands. An area tv outlet captured the poker professional’s current arrival at court docket.
Behbehani has 10 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) cashes and plenty of giant scores, together with a career-best $818,799 prize for taking second place within the 2011 Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) Major Occasion, a event gained by Sam Trickett. He hasn’t recorded any reside event cashes since August 2018, though he did attain the cash within the WSOP On-line Major Occasion on GGPoker in 2020.
Excessive-Stakes Poker Participant Busted For Drug Possession at Ibiza Airport
