Betting

In the name of charity

Aston Villa FC have just signed a three-year, eight-figure sponsorship deal with BK8, a gambling operator which is licensed in the United Kingdom but carries out its activities almost exclusively in Far Eastern countries where sports gambling is illegal.

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23 June, 2023

The integrity partner facilitating Brazilian match-fixing

Unregulated betting operators are using data from Sportradar, the same company tasked with protecting Brazilian football from match-fixing. The Brazilian Government has called for Federal Police to open an inquiry into fixed in-play events in Brazilian football.

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20 June, 2023

Down Under and top of the world

Australia, a country with just 12 professional football teams, has become the leading provider of matches for the opaque offshore betting market. Josimar has confirmed that police recently investigated one of these games.

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15 June, 2023

Fixing friendlies

There were signs of suspicious betting markets on 31 friendlies played by European clubs between December and the end of March this year. A total of 49 clubs from 18 different countries – mainly in Eastern Europe – were caught up in suspicious friendlies.

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15 May, 2023

The Fightback

The advertising blitz which controversial gambling operator 1XBet launched in Morocco in 2022 was so successful that the local gaming authority which finances the country's grassroots and elite sport saw a decline in projected revenue for the first time. But Morocco is fighting back and could lead the way for the rest of Africa to follow suit.

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3 May, 2023

Entering The Matrix via The Midlands

Using models posing as directors, football’s latest betting sponsor has concluded deals with major clubs and leagues. This enables its owners to hide behind a myriad of companies, licensors and brands.

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30 March, 2023

Behind 8XBet’s Great Wall

A company promising work with Manchester City’s betting partner is offering great pay, safe work and “no human trafficking”.

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29 March, 2023

The missing link

Josimar has found new evidence which shows that TGP, the Isle of Man company which provides UK gambling licences to Asian betting partners of a number of Premier League clubs, is intimately linked with the Suncity Group of Alvin Chau, the suspected triad member who was recently jailed for 18 years for fraud and gambling offences in China.

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14 March, 2023

The monster with a thousand faces

Asian betting brands are omnipresent in European football. In reality, most of them are owned by a handful of super-bookmakers, hiding their identities and huge cash flow.

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2 March, 2023

The lower the league, the longer the punishment?

A Football Association ruling on 262 alleged breaches of its betting rules by Brentford player Ivan Toney is imminent. Kynan Isaac, who in October last year was issued with the FA’s longest ban to date of eleven and a half years, argues that double standards are in play.

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27 February, 2023

Silent runner

President of World Athletics and member of the International Olympic Committee, Sebastian Coe, is a director of a company which has significant control over Fifa's first official betting partner Betano.

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9 February, 2023

The scramble for Africa

In 2018, according to documents seen by Josimar, the African Football Confederation (Caf) entered a ten year long sponsorship deal worth close to 60 million euro with controversial online bookmaker 1XBet. But Caf is now “re-evaluating” its business relationship with 1XBet, in a move that could cost millions for the cash-strapped confederation.

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2 February, 2023

Betting

In the name of charity

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The integrity partner facilitating Brazilian match-fixing

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Down Under and top of the world

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Fixing friendlies

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The Fightback

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Entering The Matrix via The Midlands

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Behind 8XBet’s Great Wall

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The missing link

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The monster with a thousand faces

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The lower the league, the longer the punishment?

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Silent runner

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The scramble for Africa

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Saved by the Pope

“Everyone who hears the name is afraid”

Guilt by association

“You play like wild pigs”