Sportsbet takes on New South Wales over gambling levy. Online betting group Sportsbet Party Limited has won an important legal action in the state of News South Wales, where an Australian federal court has ruled that the state may no longer impose fees on interstate gamblin...
Bets on Lampard scoring will be honoured With the repercussions of England’s stinging 4-1 World Cup defeat by Germany still reverberating around the internet, major online bookies in the UK have confirmed that they are honouring bets that Frank Lampard would score a goal in the match. Millions of television viewers watched the slo-mo...
Crime family involved in $2.2 billion sports betting ring In New Jersey, thirty five suspects pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of racketeering and operating a multi-billion dollar offshore gambling ring, reports Associated Press. The son of a Philadelphia mob figur...
Online sites took in $20 million annually, prosecutors claim. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters this week that in a major enforcement action titled ‘Operation Bettor Days’ the police and prosecutors from the Kings County DA’s office have successfully taken down five il...
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Brit bookies could have faced payouts of GBP50 million had England beaten Germany. Germany’s convincing defeat of the England football team at the World Cup in South Africa over the weekend was good news for UK bookies, who could have faced pay-outs of up to GBP 50 million had England won, widespread media reports indicate. Many UK pu...
Illegal World Cup football betting ring took HK$170 million in bets Hong Kong police have told Agence France Presse that further police raids have disrupted another online sports gambling ring over the weekend. A police spokesman claimed that a record HK$170 million (US$22 million) was taken in on illegal bets on World Cup football games an...
A quick reaction to the Malaysian government’s retreat on sports gambling Friday’s announcement by Malaysian prime minister Prime Minister Najib Razak that sports gambling will not be licensed in the country triggered a quick reaction from the Berjaya company, which has just announced that it will not be proceeding with its deal to...
Happily for the football clubs involved, the police have so far decided not to investigate. An attempt to launch a prosecution against Australian sports clubs in sponsorship deals with online gambling companies has not been successful, with federal police declining to get involved, reports The Age newspaper. The request for prosecution came...
New federal legislative proposal introduced Writing in the US horseracing publication Bloodlines last week, the CEO of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Alex Waldrop, revealed that the organisation’s lobbyists have secured the introduction of important federal legislation to protect its $1.3 billion market for advance depos...
Ascot Sports left out on a limb It’s official – there will be no issue of sports betting licenses in Malaysia, and that’s straight from the office of the country’s political leader. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told Agence France Presse this week that his government has dropped a proposal to legalise sports...
Focus is on halting illegal World Cup betting Enforcemet bodies in Malaysia and China have continued their blitz on World Cup football betting, with Malaysian authorities reporting the disruption of two major online betting syndicates, and another 120 arrests in China. Police spokesmen in Penang, Malaysia reprted the breakup of two illegal...
Status quo confers ‘rare privelege’ and should go The Australian government’s Productivity Commission recommendations are unlikely to be well received by the gambling groups Tatts and Tabcorp, which have exclusive retail wagering licences in some Australian states (provinces). The Age newspaper reports that the recommendat...
TAB Active available to punters on a subscription basis A deal signed between the giant Australian betting giant TAB and technology company Two Way Limited earlier this year came to fruition this week as the TAB Active betting service went live. Gamblers in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia can now make use of this new...
Indonesian police are suspicious of hot spots The Jakarta Globe reports that Indonesian police are keeping a close eye on football fans gathering to watch World Cup matches in wi-fi-enabled bars and cafes. Police suspect that the intent is to gamble on the gam...
Irish retail shops pay cuts questioned Stories in the Irish media over the weekend illustrate the tough times being experienced by online and land gambling group Ladbrokes, which employs around a thousand people in its 284 Irish retail betting outlets. The reports focus on a recent Labour Court finding that the gambling company should rever...
Stake in Kelicom gives entree to Favorit sports betting Intralot Holdings International Limited has acquired a 33 percent stake in Russian betting firm Kelicom, gaining entrée to a ‘strategic stake’ in Russian sports betting operation Favorit Bookm...
In-play betting facility to be provided to interactive television service FetchTV viewers in the UK will be able to bet on sporting events as they unfold on television following a deal between online gambling group Betfair TV and IP Vision, parent compa...
Independent website performance monitor salutes two major sports betting sites for consistency and speed of response despite heavy traffic. The independent website performance monitor Gomez reports that major online sports betting comp...
Atex Polopoly will improve content management and uptime The major Reading-based UK internet gambling group Unibet is to up its game in the management and content of company websites following an outsourcing deal with Atex Polopoly. With 4.4 million online punters a...
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