Events & Reports

Illegal Gambling Operators Use WeChat’s Virtual Red Envelopes to Lure Gamblers

Illegal Gambling Operators Use WeChat’s Virtual Red Envelopes to Lure Gamblers

by July 24, 2018

Chinese police has recently cracked down on yet another illegal gambling ring that used WeChat to provide users of the extremely popular messaging app with the opportunity to punt on virtual red envelopes, the South China Morning Post reports citing information obtained by the Xi ...

Thai Police Continue Clamping Down on Illegal Betting after World Cup

Thai Police Continue Clamping Down on Illegal Betting after World Cup

by July 23, 2018

Thai and Chinese police busted last week another illegal online gambling operation in Thailand, Thai police officers announced earlier today.In a joint operation, police from the two countries arrested 34 individuals, most of whom Chinese nationals, on illegal gambling charg ...

South Africa Plans to Implement Fresh Gambling Industry Restrictions

South Africa Plans to Implement Fresh Gambling Industry Restrictions

by July 23, 2018

The South African Minister of Trade and Industry introduced last Friday a bill aiming to implement significant restrictions to both the country’s regulated and unregulated gambling markets, local news outlets report.The bill has been in the making since 2016 and several vers ...

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Says Ads Ban Is First Step in Larger Gambling Clampdown

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Says Ads Ban Is First Step in Larger Gambling Clampdown

by July 20, 2018

Gambling is a growing social and cultural issue that is devastating Italian society, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said Thursday in another wave of negative comments directed toward Italy’s gambling industry.Minister Di Maio visited the Citadel of Catholi ...

Gambling Operators Currently Targeting Dutch Players Could Still Be Eligible for Licenses

Gambling Operators Currently Targeting Dutch Players Could Still Be Eligible for Licenses

by July 19, 2018

Dutch Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker has urged the country’s government to allow operators currently targeting Dutch customers to apply for a license from the local regulator upon the gambling market’s eventual re-regulation and re-organization.Under the Netherl ...

Polish Finance Ministry to Access Internet Users Data to Crack Down on Illegal Gambling

Polish Finance Ministry to Access Internet Users Data to Crack Down on Illegal Gambling

by July 18, 2018

Poland might be gearing up to further tighten its grip on the provision of unlicensed gambling services by accessing and using personal data of local Internet users, according to a Tuesday publication by local NGO Panoptykon Foundation (Fundacja Panoptykon).Poland re-regulat ...

Google AdWords Bans Gambling Ads for Italy

Google AdWords Bans Gambling Ads for Italy

by July 18, 2018

Google has informed Italy-facing AdWords advertisers that they will no longer be able to advertise gambling products and services in Italy. The announcement comes shortly after a proposed ban on all forms of gambling advertising was approved by the Italian government.Google ...

Casino Exclusion Requests on the Rise in Macau, Regulator Reveals

Casino Exclusion Requests on the Rise in Macau, Regulator Reveals

by July 17, 2018

A total of 233 requests for casino floor exclusion were submitted to the Macau Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau during the first half of the year, the regulator said Monday. The applications filed were 54 more than those in the six months ended June 30, 2017.Of all ...

Shanghai Police Nab Illegal World Cup Betting Gang

Shanghai Police Nab Illegal World Cup Betting Gang

by July 16, 2018

Shanghai police have foiled an illegal online gambling ring that is believed to have netted more than CNY400 million (approximately $60 million), police officers disclosed this weekend.As many as fourteen individuals were arrested for their alleged involvement in the gang, p ...

Norway’s Gambling Market Worth NOK43.7 Billion in 2017

Norway’s Gambling Market Worth NOK43.7 Billion in 2017

by July 16, 2018

Norway’s regulated gambling market was worth NOK43.7 billion (approximately $5.4 billion/€4.6 billion) in 2017, figures released today by the country’s gambling regulator, Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet, show. Unregulated online gambling operations raked in net sales of between N ...

Poland’s Regulated Gambling Market Remains Unpopular as Blacklist of Erring Operators Keeps Growing

Poland’s Regulated Gambling Market Remains Unpopular as Blacklist of Erring Operators Keeps Growing

by July 15, 2018

More than a year after the re-regulation of Poland’s gambling market the country’s Finance Ministry, the governmental entity charged with overseeing all things gambling, has remained consistent in its efforts to detect violators of rules and to penalize those.The ...

Poker Tournaments Starting July 16-22

Poker Tournaments Starting July 16-22

by July 14, 2018

This year’s edition of the WSOP is just days away from its end after more than a month of thrilling poker action at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. However, there are a number of exciting events slated to kick off next week in different popular poker destinations around the wor ...

Thai Police Make 14,300 Gambling Arrests During Russia World Cup

Thai Police Make 14,300 Gambling Arrests During Russia World Cup

by July 13, 2018

Thai police have nabbed more than 14,300 people on gambling charges since the beginning of the Russia World Cup last month, a police general revealed on Thursday. Most of the arrested individuals have been from Bangkok and surrounding areas.Deputy Police Commissioner Pol. Ge ...

Chinese Police Bust $1.5-Billion Bitcoin Betting Operation

Chinese Police Bust $1.5-Billion Bitcoin Betting Operation

by July 12, 2018

Chinese police have arrested more than 540 individuals for their alleged involvement in an illegal online betting operation that accepted bitcoin only to avoid regulatory and legal pitfalls. The case was labeled China’s first major one to involve the provision of illegal gambling ...

Swedish Gambling Authority Posts License Application Forms ahead of Market Re-Regulation

Swedish Gambling Authority Posts License Application Forms ahead of Market Re-Regulation

by July 11, 2018

The Swedish Gambling Authority, Lotteriinspektionen, published Tuesday a confirmation that the application process for gaming and betting licenses under Sweden’s new gambling law would begin on August 1, 2018. The regulator also uploaded the application form for operators interes ...