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Police blitz Monday sees 12 arrested
The Asian enforcement blitz against betting on the football World Cup has spread to Singapore, where police report that two illegal football betting syndicates were crippled in a 15-hour police blitz on Monday.
12 persons were arrested including two of the syndicate leaders, a spokesman revealed without naming those involved.
Raids were conducted by officers from the Police Intelligence...
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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 gambling providers in order to protect its main wagering taxpayer, TabCorp Holdings Limited.
Darwin-based SportsBet is majority-owned by online and land-based bookma...
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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 replay of a Lampard shot that clearly rolled over the line and into the net, apparently unseen b...
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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 figure and two men believed to head the New York-based Lucchese crime family were among those cited in the indictments...
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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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Mobile sportsbook is optimised for iPad
Rank plc’s online sports betting division Blue Square released its Mobile Sportsbook optimised for iPad offering this week.
The Blue Square team used tools provided by long term mobile partner mkodo to build the...
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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 punters placed patriotic bets on England winning through to the finals, but Germany’s impressive 4...
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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 and horse racing by the ring.
Authorit...
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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 acquire 70 perce...
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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 from the federal government’s Department...
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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 deposit wagering.
The bill, H.R. 5599, clarifies the relationship between the Wire Act, a 1961 fe...
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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 lega...
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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 online World Cup football gambling syndicates involving bets worth RM750,000, together wit...
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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 recommendations of the Commission place renewed pressure on the gambling companies, because it urges state governments...
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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 interactive TV gambling service. The TAB Active platform, already up and running in the m...
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