According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, several poker pros have been named and/or arrested for their involvement in an illegal gambling case allegedly led by figures associated with Russia’s organized crime syndicate.

An 84-page indictmentwas unsealed on Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the same person responsible for the Black Friday indictments two years ago. In total, 34 people were indicted this time, with the Federal Government alleging that they were responsible for a gambling and money laundering ring that had ties to the Russian mob.

As the indictment was unsealed, Federal agents raided several places in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Philadelphia armed with search warrants and orders to arrest.

Of the 34 people charged, at least four are well-known poker pros. Named in the indictment as a key figure in the gambling ring was Vadim Trincher (pictured above). According to the Wall Street Journal’s Reed Albergotti, Trincher was asleep in his Trump Tower condominium when FBI agents entered. Albergotti interviewed Trincher’s wife outside the New York courtroom after her husband’s arrest, saying it was “a misunderstanding.”

Trincher is implicated heavily in the indictment. Federal prosecutors are accusing Trincher and another man, Helly Nahmad (the son of David Nahmad, a billionaire art dealer and collector), as being the major players in the operation, allegedly laundering money through bank accounts and shell companies in Cyprus and then sending that money between Russia and the U.S. The Journal stated that Federal prosecutors told the judge during his arraignment on Tuesday that Trincher was responsible for laundering almost $50 million.

U.S. attorneys also presented evidence during the arraignment that could be very damning for Trincher. Prosecutors said that he was heard on wiretaps threatening gamblers who couldn’t pay their debts with physical violence.

Several other successful poker pros were also named in the indictment. Bill Edler, Peter nordbergFeldman (pictured), John Hanson, and Abe Mosseri were listed as defendants in court documents and, according to reports from MyFoxNY, Mosseri and Edler are still at large. Both men have been named in the indictment for their alleged operation of a sports book. Along with the 34 people indicted by the SDNY, the charges they could be facing include racketeering, extortion, money laundering, and illegal gambling.

Edler and Mosseri are both World Series of Poker bracelet winners, with Edler’s title coming in 2007 and Mosseri’s in 2009. Feldman is a two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner and Hanson has battled it out on the biggest stage in poker, the WSOP’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship, finishing in third in 2007 and second in 2009. All four have well over $1 million in career earnings and been prominent on the global poker circuit.

Also listed in the indictment was Molly “The Poker Princess” Bloom. While not a poker player per se, Bloom was responsible for organizing high-stakes games that allegedly raged across the country for almost a decade and included such notable figures as Tobey Maguire, “Rounders” star Matt Damon, baseball star Alex Rodriguez, and tennis legend Pete Sampras. Trincher and others allegedly laundered money through those games. In 2011, she was tapped to write a book about the subject, which is due out in 2014.

As the indictment was just released on Tuesday, there will be much more to the story as time passes. PocketFives will continue to monitor the situation.

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