Fifa’s new prediction market partner Adi Predictstreet’s cast of controversial characters keeps growing: in 2018, its new Money Laundering Reporting Officer Colin Piri accepted a two-year ban from Gibraltar’s financial watchdog over his then-employer’s AML shortcomings.
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Twenty-four hours after Josimar revealed that Fifa’s new “prediction market” partner Adi Predictstreet was run by a man accused of insider trading, the Abu Dhabi firm appointed a CEO linked to ‘Qatargate’, one of the biggest lobbying scandals in the history of the EU Parliament.
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The fall-out from the demise of 777 Partners has resulted in a fire sale of assets by A-CAP, and a potential bail-out by Internazionale Milano owners Oaktree.
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Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in almost all jurisdictions and is run by a man who last year paid a six-figure sum to settle an accusation of insider trading in India.
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How did a computer science academic and reality TV show contestant from Zagreb end up representing illegal sports-betting operator Z6 when it signed a sponsorship agreement with the Croatia national football team?
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Saudi Arabia wants a repeat of the Qatar World Cup – little or no accountability over its treatment of migrant workers. The Arab Kingdom is not shy to intimidate unions to get a current complaint at the International Labour Organization (ILO) dropped.
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Newcastle United’s new Asian betting partner 8Xbet almost entirely vanished late in 2024, only to reappear with a mysterious new “owner” shortly afterwards. It is now embroiled in an unprecedented trademark war with a mysterious US company in the UK and elsewhere. What is going on?
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As the UK government considers introducing a blanket ban on advertising for unlicensed bookmakers in football, Newcastle United has become the latest Premier League club to become the partner of mysterious Asian-facing sports betting platform 8Xbet, previously linked with a cyber slavery compound in Cambodia.
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Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
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Giacomo Angelini may be the new owner of Standard de Liège but his ‘takeover’ was funded entirely by A-CAP. How is this possible, and what does it mean for the Pro League club?
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Everton’s former sleeve sponsor, live-streamed the final moments of a French influencer who had previously been filmed being subjected to brutal abuse. Kick has the same owners as Stake, the illegal gambling operator which remains Everton’s front shirt sponsor.
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The 2010 Fifa World Cup official anthem “Waka Waka” was meant to raise a fortune for African charities, but no money has been forthcoming since 2014. Josimar can tell where some of the missing millions have gone.
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