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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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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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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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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 Predictstreet received its Gibraltar gambling licence a mere nine days after the company was founded, and one of its directors works for a law firm of which the Minister who issued that licence is a partner.
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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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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