Adam Anhang’s ex-wife convicted in online gambling murder

It’s taken over a decade, but the former wife of online gambling exec Adam Anhang has been convicted of complicity in his murder.

On Wednesday, a Puerto Rico court convicted Aurea Vazquez-Rijos for her role in the 2005 murder of Anhang, the Canadian founder of Costa Rica-based live dealer online casino firm CWC (Casino Web Cab) Gaming. The jury also convicted Vazquez’s sister and a former boyfriend of conspiracy in the killing.

Vazquez was accused of hiring a hit man to kill Anhang just 12 hours after he filed for divorce from Vazquez, whom he’d married six months earlier. That hitman, a local drug dealer named Alex Pabón-Colón, pled guilty to stabbing Anhang multiple times outside a San Juan restaurant to which Anhang had been lured by Vazquez, ostensibly to discuss the terms of their divorce.

A restaurant employee was originally fingered as Anhang’s killer, but after Pabón’s arrest in 2008, Vazquez fled to Italy, banking on the country’s lack of an extradition treaty with the United States for individuals charged with capital crimes. In 2013, Vazquez was arrested after traveling to Spain, and was extradited to Puerto Rico two years later.