🎉 The bankruptcy of the gambling company Dama N.V. in Curacao has been overturned by the General Jurisdiction Court. The gambling company demonstrated that it is financially healthy and reported that player claims have been resolved. Previously, the BitStarz casino had delayed payments to two clients from the UAE and Austria, totaling €816,800.
📈 In Russia, Roskomnadzor blocked nearly 132,000 sites with online casino advertisements in the first half of 2024. This is a 16% increase from last year and 117% more than the number of blocked resources in 2021. Since the inception of the Unified Register of Banned Information (2012), over 685,000 sites have been removed or blocked due to online casino advertisements. Additionally, Roskomnadzor imposed fines totaling ₽22 million on several foreign social networks for not removing materials containing online casino advertisements targeting Russian consumers.
📉 The largest distributor of Russian state lotteries, “Stoloto,” and F.A.C.C.T., a Russian technology developer for combating cybercrime, discovered and blocked 3,491 fraudulent resources impersonating popular state lotteries in the first half of 2024, including illegal use of the Stoloto brand. This includes 2,962 fraudulent websites, 343 fake posts, accounts, and groups on social networks, 35 messages in messengers, and 151 fake mobile apps. This is 53% more than the same period last year and 81.3% more than in the first six months of 2022.
💰💰 Parimatch paid over $26 million in unpaid taxes to the Ukrainian budget. The investigation believes that this situation arose from intentional tax evasion by the gambling company's management for the period from 2021 to 2023.
🔎 KRAIL found no grounds to revoke the licenses of Vbet and PIN-UP. The Commission reviewed the companies “Ukr Game Technology” and “Vbet Ukraine” for connections with Russia but found no grounds for license revocation.
🫣 In Uzbekistan, 30 suspects in organizing illegal online casinos have been detained. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, the suspects allegedly earned $900,000 illegally over the past three months.
🌟 A TikTok star has been arrested at Bangkok airport for operating an online casino. Thai police arrested 29-year-old blogger Chutima, known as Soda, for running the illegal gambling site Zigma911 with a turnover of over $112.8 million. Zigma911 was advertised on social media and offered games like baccarat, slots, lotteries, and sports betting. The blogger faces charges of violating computer, gambling, and money laundering laws.
🦆 Indonesia has banned the confidential search engine DuckDuckGo as part of its fight against gambling and pornography. Previously, Indonesia blocked the social media platform Reddit and the video hosting service Vimeo, and in June, the authorities restricted access to nearly 3 million online casino sites.
✍🏼 In the US, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has ordered Bet365 to compensate players over $500,000 for illegal changes in odds on player payouts.
👏 A federal court in Brazil has ordered the National Telecommunications Agency Anatel to unblock betting sites that had not obtained a license in Rio de Janeiro within 5 days.
Stay tuned for the latest and most relevant legal news from the gambling industry! 📰✨
📈 In Russia, Roskomnadzor blocked nearly 132,000 sites with online casino advertisements in the first half of 2024. This is a 16% increase from last year and 117% more than the number of blocked resources in 2021. Since the inception of the Unified Register of Banned Information (2012), over 685,000 sites have been removed or blocked due to online casino advertisements. Additionally, Roskomnadzor imposed fines totaling ₽22 million on several foreign social networks for not removing materials containing online casino advertisements targeting Russian consumers.
📉 The largest distributor of Russian state lotteries, “Stoloto,” and F.A.C.C.T., a Russian technology developer for combating cybercrime, discovered and blocked 3,491 fraudulent resources impersonating popular state lotteries in the first half of 2024, including illegal use of the Stoloto brand. This includes 2,962 fraudulent websites, 343 fake posts, accounts, and groups on social networks, 35 messages in messengers, and 151 fake mobile apps. This is 53% more than the same period last year and 81.3% more than in the first six months of 2022.
💰💰 Parimatch paid over $26 million in unpaid taxes to the Ukrainian budget. The investigation believes that this situation arose from intentional tax evasion by the gambling company's management for the period from 2021 to 2023.
🔎 KRAIL found no grounds to revoke the licenses of Vbet and PIN-UP. The Commission reviewed the companies “Ukr Game Technology” and “Vbet Ukraine” for connections with Russia but found no grounds for license revocation.
🫣 In Uzbekistan, 30 suspects in organizing illegal online casinos have been detained. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan, the suspects allegedly earned $900,000 illegally over the past three months.
🌟 A TikTok star has been arrested at Bangkok airport for operating an online casino. Thai police arrested 29-year-old blogger Chutima, known as Soda, for running the illegal gambling site Zigma911 with a turnover of over $112.8 million. Zigma911 was advertised on social media and offered games like baccarat, slots, lotteries, and sports betting. The blogger faces charges of violating computer, gambling, and money laundering laws.
🦆 Indonesia has banned the confidential search engine DuckDuckGo as part of its fight against gambling and pornography. Previously, Indonesia blocked the social media platform Reddit and the video hosting service Vimeo, and in June, the authorities restricted access to nearly 3 million online casino sites.
✍🏼 In the US, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has ordered Bet365 to compensate players over $500,000 for illegal changes in odds on player payouts.
👏 A federal court in Brazil has ordered the National Telecommunications Agency Anatel to unblock betting sites that had not obtained a license in Rio de Janeiro within 5 days.
Stay tuned for the latest and most relevant legal news from the gambling industry! 📰✨