Posts From: February 2024

Gibraltar removed from FATF grey list 

Gibraltar has been removed from Financial Action Task Force’s grey list together with Barbados, United Arab Emirates and Uganda. Kenya and Namibia join it and Iran and the Republic of...

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Tory MP’s appeal against suspension upheld 

Blackpool South MP Scott Benton is set to be suspended from the Commons for 35 days after his appeal against the Standards Committee’s decision was dismissed by an independent panel....

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Ukraine seizes accounts of online casino Cosmolot for $18.6 million

Ukraine’s Bureau of Economic Security (BES) has seized UAH 700 million ($18.6 million) from the accounts of one of the largest gambling operators in Ukraine, according to a report in Forbes on...

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Evolution hit with lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors

Federman & Sherwood has announced that on January 23, 2024 it filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Evolution AB....

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Supreme Court awards ATG naming rights against Svenska Spel

Since 1973, ATG has registered the company name Aktiebolaget Trav och Galopp with the Swedish Companies Registration Office. When Svenska Spel 2020 launched betting on horses, they still used the...

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IGT withdraws legal claim against Gambling Commission

International Game Technology PLC brought an application for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal seeking to overturn the 28 July 2023 High Court decision that IGT did not...

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AC Milan defender Alessandro Florenzi under investigation for alleged illegal betting

AC Milan fullback Alessandro Florenzi became the latest Italian player placed under investigation by Turin prosecutors looking into footballers using illegal websites to bet on games, according to Italian media...

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“Roma” issues statement regarding allegations of illegal betting by its players

Roma have released a statement expressing ‘full support’ for Nicola Zalewski and Stephan El Shaarawy after ‘reputation-damaging speculation’ around the gambling scandal, but did not mention Nicolò Zaniolo. As things stand,...

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