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.
Just a week after being released from a 2013 arrest, 51-year-old Singapore businessman, Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, was arrested again by police on Tuesday, December 1st for “involvement in criminal ac...
Correction Notice: In a previous version of this article the headline included a claim that the “charity” lost its tax status over gambling research whereas specifically, the organization lost endorsements beca...
While it is clear that Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdown on the Macau industry has caused the casino industry to suffer its biggest market slump, questions must also be raised about Macau’s gambling regulatio...
More than 7 million Neteller and Skrill (Moneybookers) customer accounts were hacked in 2009 and 2010 according to a statement released by the London Stock Exchange on November 30. Paysafe, formerly known as Op...
On Wednesday, November 25 an El Monte man was arrested on suspicion of defrauding a Bank of America customer of $46,866 at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland, California.
A Bank of America fr...
Roy Mariano, a blackjack dealer working for the Connecticut Mohegan Sun, pleaded not guilty this week to cheating the casino out of tens of thousands of dollars. Mariano allegedly overpaid a player by $78,000 a...
A notorious band of international gamblers has been shut down in Florida; well, not quite.
Apparently someone was suspicious of Zelda King and the other gambling grandmas who gathered every Thursday to play ...
Local news sources report that Detroit’s Greektown casino has been the sight for a $500,000 heist.
An unarmed man, dressed as a Loomis security guard, walked up to a Loomis armored van parked outside Detroit...
Christiaan Alexander Van Dalen is a former affiliate manager for Betsson AB, an online gambling operator, who has been accused of stealing money from the company by using his position. Van Dalen had access to c...
Florida handicapper Adam Meyer, who has been charged with extorting $25 million from Wisconsin's largest liquor distributor, 64-year old Gary Sadoff, claims he aided several government agencies in seizing more ...
A political watchdog group that had called for federal investigations of Sheldon Adelson, the Chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has retracted some of it's statements and issued an apology to the casino owner ...
Following 2009 plea agreements in an illegal online gambling service case, the Swiss Justice Ministry says that the assets involved in the service are now to be split between the United States and Switzerland. ...
The Malaysian government is considering adjusting the current laws to stop what they are calling ‘widespread’ activity in online illegal gambling. Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed, the Deputy Home Minister, stated on W...
Tan Seet Eng, better known as Dan Tan, is one of 14 people that were arrested in September 2013 when Singapore officials were cracking down on a match-fixing ring. Believed to be the mastermind of the global sc...
After the country’s largest underground banking operation was dismantled by authorities in China last week, handling online gambling transactions in the country could become much more difficult.
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