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.
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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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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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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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Correspondence between the Premier League and the British government suggests that, contrary to expectations, elite English football clubs will be allowed to pursue commercial relationships with illegal betting operators in the future.
Illegal betting operators routinely use actors to impersonate their owners and executives, but none of them has ever gone as far in this respect as AC Milan's brand new "official betting partner in Asia" sureWin and its "founder William Anderson".
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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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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Money-laundering, scamming, cyber slavery compounds and appalling human rights abuses are no obstacles for Premier League clubs looking for betting partners – or the UK regulator.
Uefa’s integrity partner Sportradar consistently claims that it doesn’t sell data to unlicensed gambling operators. But its annual report states that it generates significant revenue from unlicensed gambling.
