 Man
Admits to Killing
Online Gambling Exec
A man accused of
being a conspirator
in the Puerto Rico
murder of a Winnipeg
millionaire and
online gambling
executive told a
U.S. federal judge
Friday that he did
killed Adam Anhang.
Alex Pabon Colon
said he struck a
deal with Aurea
Vazquez Rijos to
murder her husband, Anhang, who was
32 when he was
beaten and stabbed
to death in
September 2005 as he
walked from an Old
San Juan restaurant,
the website
PrimeraHora.com
said.
Colon, who appeared
before the U.S.
District Court in
Puerto Rico, told
judge Daniel
Dominguez that there
were two other
people involved in
planning the
assassination, the
website said.
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 earlier
this year after
Dateline NBC
reported on the
incident and what
may have led up to
it.
Colon was named
along with Vazquez
in a U.S. Grand Jury
indictment alleging
they were involved
in conspiring to
kill Anhang, who
made millions
developing
condominium hotels
in Puerto Rico and
was the head of an
online gambling
software company in
Costa Rica. The
indictment alleged
that Vazquez offered
Colon $3 million to
commit the murder.
Vazquez is pregnant
with twins and
living in Florence,
Italy with an
Italian man, her
mother, Carmen Rijos,
said this week
during a brief
interview with the
Puerto Rican
newspaper El Vocero.
"In Italy, people
are concerned about
her, they are in
solidarity with her,
and they are
supporting her,"
said Carmen, who
spoke to the
newspaper along with
Chalbert Rijos, her
son and Vazquez's
brother.
Vazquez's family
members said she
will return to
Puerto Rico to face
the charge once her
lawyer contacts her.
Carmen Rijos said
her daughter was
innocent and
distraught by her
husband's death. She
said Vazquez told
police her husband
was murdered by a
drug addict.
Another man has
already been
convicted for
Anhang's murder.
Jonathan Roman
Rivera, 24, was
given a 105-year
sentence, but has
maintained his
innocence. The FBI
has reportedly
informed the
Department of
Justice that Roman
is innocent.
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Gambling911.com News
Wire,
Canwest News Service
Originally published
to Gambling911.com
June 17, 2008 8:23
am EST
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