As reported by: Agence France-Presse
Three gamblers who used a James Bond-style laser device to win over a million dollars at a London hotel casino will not face prosecution, as they did nothing illegal, police said yesterday.

The trio who pulled off an audacious coup at the Ritz using gadgetry on March 16 to calculate where a roulette ball would land are to be allowed to keep their (ps)1.3-million winnings police had seized, officers said. The gamblers, described by police sources as a "chic and beautiful" Hungarian woman, aged 32, and two "elegant" Serbian men, aged 33 and 38, were alleged to have smuggled into the casino a laser scanner inside a mobile phone that was linked to a micro-computer, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.

The scanner measured the speed of the ball as it was released by the croupier, identified where it fell and measured the declining orbit of the wheel, it added.