gambling

Ghost in the machine

Mystery surrounds 8XBet, Manchester City's new Asian betting partner. Open-source intelligence points to the UAE.

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20 September, 2022

Bet365’s foray into the Chinese market may have expanded to include more than 12,000 domain names during the pandemic. IP addresses registered in Australia but located offshore, some possibly in Hong Kong, have been a key part of its operation.

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15 July, 2022

No Questions Asked, We’re English

You'd have thought that with the imminent publication of the British government's White Paper on gambling and the current public interest in – and criticism of – that business, English football clubs would have taken a step back in their toxic relationship with bookmakers. At least for a while.

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6 July, 2022

Double standards, U Bet

A football player or official in England is being charged once every three weeks on average by the Football Association in one of the sporting world’s biggest probes for betting on matches.

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21 June, 2022

Meet Mr Chau

The triad gangster at the heart of English football gambling.

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16 June, 2022

Match-fixing heaven

Close to a thousand semi-professional and youth football matches from Europe are available for live-betting on a typical weekend, an audit of the global betting industry has found.

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15 June, 2022

The Imitation Games

FC Barcelona’s global betting partner, the controversial Russian bookmaker 1XBet, is regularly offering in-play odds and livestreamed videos of “fake” sporting competitions – including one football league with a team that shares the Catalans’ name.

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10 March, 2022

Gambling with lives

Eight Premier League clubs – including Manchester United and Chelsea – are current partners of Asian bookmakers registered in the Philippines. A devastating new report documents in detail the crimes and human horrors behind the inviting facade of these online operators.

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31 January, 2022

The Vanishing

Yabo Sports was about to conquer the world of football, before disappearing almost as soon as they had arrived. And the man posing on the deals done with Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain was not the CEO of Yabo Sports, but a male model.

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5 January, 2022

The Asian Connection

The links between Premier League clubs and mysterious Asian e-Gambling platforms keeps getting stronger. Everton recently announced i8.BET as the club's new Asian betting partner. But who they are, what they actually do, no-one knows, aside from a handful of individuals who are neither seen, heard or scrutinised.

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6 December, 2021

The Insider

«Now, look, very often, these bank guarantees aren't worth the paper they're written on. Like I saw one example where the bank guarantee came from that country's central bank, but when the money came, it came from a hundred different accounts, and you think, what on earth is going on there?»

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26 August, 2021

The Sound of Silence

Premier League clubs are unwilling to answer questions regarding their Asian betting sponsors and partners.

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25 August, 2021

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Ghost in the machine

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Chinese takeout

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No Questions Asked, We’re English

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Double standards, U Bet

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Meet Mr Chau

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Match-fixing heaven

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The Imitation Games

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Gambling with lives

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The Vanishing

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The Asian Connection

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The Insider

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The Sound of Silence

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“Everyone who hears the name is afraid”

Guilt by association

“You play like wild pigs”

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