Portuguese international Bruno Fernandes is the new official brand ambassador of Vietnamese illegal casino QH88 – except he isn’t: the “Bruno Fernandes” featured in the operator’s promotional video is a strikingly realistic AI-generated avatar, the very first of its kind.
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Fifa’s favourite pop singer Shakira stands to make a small fortune from her new World Cup official anthem despite pledges that all proceeds of “Dai Dai” would go to the Fifa Global Citizen Education Fund. English superstar Ed Sheeran will be another beneficiary of the initiative.
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Regulators in several countries immediately moved to block ADI Predictstreet, Fifa’s $150m prediction market sponsor, for operating illegally on the very day it went live.
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Eagle Football’s collapse exposes the systemic risks of private credit in European football. Is Chelsea next in line?
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The chaotic implosion of John Textor’s Eagle Football Group is a warning sign of the growing dangers of the sport’s infiltration by the shadowy world of private credit.
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Fifa’s Code of Ethics prohibits active participants in football from taking money from gambling-related activities, but that rule doesn’t seem to apply to new Real Madrid manager José Mourinho, the current “brand ambassador” of two major sports betting companies.
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A mobile app bearing the name and logo of Fifa’s new “prediction market partner” ADI Predictstreet has finally landed in the Google Play store. What it leads to is an illegal online casino.
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Despite a three-year failure to organise a national championship, the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) retains the backing of the AFC and Fifa. They have issued a deadline on 4 May for the government to reinstate the suspended ANFA, following a string of administrative and legal breaches. Nepal’s players have become the first victims of the political standoff.
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Popular Norwegian football app FotMob is being used as a platform to advertise illegal betting across the globe, an investigation by Josimar has uncovered.
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The Fifa Code of Ethics prohibits active participants in football from endorsing sports betting operators. How is it that Atlético de Madrid’s manager Diego Simeone is the current official ambassador of Betinia and Campobet?
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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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