Every industry and profession has its unsavory characters. While much of the world gambling trade is now regulated, there are still plenty of regions in the dark grey and darker zones. As well, whenever extraordinary amounts of money or opportunity are available in any business, a few bad apples will try to take advantage of it. We cover the important breaking crime news here which can include anything from a compromised regulator to small-time crooks looking to profit off some weakness in security.
In a matter of a few short years, we have shown the spotlight on well over 500 incidences of malfeasance running the gamut from insider trading to casino heists, cheating, hacking, money laundering, illegal bookmaking, data breaches, unlicensed operations, tax evasion, conspiracy, racketeering, bribery, and financial fraud.
We don't cover every single sensational crime, because this isn't clickbait - it's just us doing our part as responsible participants in an industry that should always remain transparent and accountable... an industry so self-conscious about its past that violations are often brought to a regulator's attention by the very actors who have made a mistake.
In China, a court has heard how an illegal online gambling website established in 2012 processed nearly $60 billion in wagers from some two million people and made its operators a profit of almost $84 million b...
Over the weekend, it was reported by Xinhua news that 94 individuals were arrested by police in China. Those arrested were thought to be involved in a cross-border gambling ring worth $72 billion. The activitie...
James Packer's Crown Resorts has reportedly deployed a host of high-powered in-house and outside legal advisers and counsel to help assess the corporation's vulnerability and liability following the arrest of 1...
Immigration officials in the Philippines arrested more than 1,000 individuals on Friday, all of which were undocumented Chinese nationals, after a raid took place in Clark, Pampanga at a recreational facility. ...
In Russia, facial recognition software firm N-Tech.Lab Limited has built upon the success of its FindFace service with the launch of its new and more powerful FindFace Cloud API innovation.
Moscow-based N-Te...
In Macau, suspected gambling-related crime has reportedly climbed by some 16% year-on-year during the first nine months of 2016 to 1,298 individual instances led by a 45% swell in alleged cases of loan-sharking...
The three Australian employees of Crown Resorts Limited detained by Chinese police last month before being formally arrested earlier this week have now reportedly been allowed to meet with officials from their ...
In Australia, an official study has reportedly revealed that security staff at The Star Sydney have not been under-reporting incidents of assault in the wake of the early-2014 introduction of Sydney’s controver...
The 18 employees of Crown Resorts Limited arrested in China last month have now been officially charged with “gambling crimes” and most of the group is now facing up to six months in custody before their cases ...
In the Commonwealth Of The Northern Mariana Islands, casino operator Imperial Pacific International Holdings Limited has announced that it has not received any notification to suggest that it is being investiga...
In Kenya, four Kisumu District County politicians have called on the national government to investigate claims that coin-operated slots are being illegally smuggled into the African nation by foreign nationals ...
Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, caught the nation off-guard when he announced on November 9 that 500 and 1000 rupee notes would be demonetized from November 10 and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) wo...
The Casino Rama Resort in Ontario, Canada announced Thursday that the facility had suffered a data breach that could have compromised information going back as far as 2004. One day later a class action lawyer b...
Financiers of the Deadwood Mountain Grand resort are suing a group of developers that turned the former Homestake gold mining slime plant in overlooking Deadwood, South Dakota into a luxurious hotel and casino ...
Certain spam from online gambling affiliates will no longer be tolerated by the UK. Today more than 400 letters went out from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to companies the watchdog agency believe...