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In a shocking new development, Italy has refused to extradite the wife of murdered online gambling executive, Adam Anhang.
US Authorities have charged Anhang's estranged wife, Aurea Vazquez Rijos, for the alleged murder-for-hire of her wealthy Canadian husband.
The former CFO of Dr. Ho and CEO of CWC Gaming, Adam Anhang, was brutally stabbed to death in September 2005 while walking with his wife in the normally "safe" Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The frail Anhang received around 20 stab wounds to nearly all parts of his body. Gambling911.com was the first to break the story.
The case gained national US media exposure last year after Dateline NBC reported on the incident and what may have led up to it.
Initially an employee of Anhang's was wrongly accused and put on trial. The employee was a dishwasher at a restaurant/bar owned by the couple, The Pink Skirt, in Old San Juan.
Rijos fled to Italy where she was reportedly pregnant with twins.
Why are the Italians blocking the extradition you might ask???
"Apparently the Italians do not extradite back to countries that have the death penalty," a source familiar with the case told Gambling911.com. "Now Puerto Rico does not have the death penalty but because they are under the US criminal law jurisdiction, this appears to be the hold up."
Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
