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Em comunicado, a ASAE explica que as ações de fiscalização decorreram entre 22 e 25 de agosto e abrangeram “estabelecimentos localizados na região Oeste de Lisboa, no Alentejo e Algarve”. As ações, coordenadas pela Unidade Regional do Sul da ASAE, foram “especialmente direcionadas” a práticas ilícitas relacionadas com a...
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Mais de 4.100 pessoas foram detidas em rusgas coordenadas em 11 países durante o Euro 2016, na mais recente operação policial global contra o jogo ilegal em grandes torneios de futebol. Foram realizadas cerca de 4.000 rusgas na China, França, Grécia, Itália, Malásia, Singapura, Tailândia e Vietname no âmbito...
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A Polícia de Segurança (PSP) de Lisboa cumpriu 30 mandados de busca nos concelhos de Lisboa, Loures, Odivelas, Vila Franca de Xira e Mafra, no âmbito de uma investigação relacionada com jogos de sorte e azar, informou a PSP através de um comunicado. No decorrer da ação policial, as...
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A polícia de Hong Kong confiscou mais de 400 milhões de dólares em apostas ilegais de futebol numa série de rusgas horas antes da meia-final do Euro 2016 entre o País de Gales e Portugal – mais do triplo do montante apreendido durante todo o torneio de 2012. Dezanove...
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Hong Kong police have confiscated about HK$130 million in betting records and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal football gambling launched ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. One of the bookmaking rackets, which had raked in orders of HK$31 million, was broken up on June...
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Another week brings another round of Euro 2016 betting busts by Asian law enforcement. Our first stop takes us to Hong Kong, where police are busy tallying the score of their Operation Crowbeak anti-betting crackdown. Police say they’ve arrested over 50 individuals and confiscated around HKD 130m (US $16.7m) in...
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Police have busted a remote gambling syndicate believed to have received more than S$200,000 in soccer bets in the past two weeks, in the midst of the ongoing UEFA European Championship from Jun 10 to Jul 10. In a news release on Sunday (Jun 26), the Singapore Police Force...
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Vietnamese police busted an underground football gambling ring worth more than US$300 million ahead of Euro 2016, state media reported Tuesday (Jun 14), as authorities look to block the black market betting that typically surges during major international sporting events. Police have arrested 23 people from the gambling network...
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Several illegal underground casinos located in Beijing have been exposed to the mainland public after Chinese journalists visited unannounced and produced reports on the gambling hubs. The revealed casinos were mostly hidden in high-end apartments, and were generally protected by several layers of security. Each casino has its own...
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An undercover reporter has revealed details of an underground gambling den operating in Beijing where players can lose millions of yuan in card games, according to a newspaper report. The illegal gambling was carried out in an expensive apartment in the west of the capital near its third ring...
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A Unidade de Ação Fiscal da GNR desmantelou uma rede que explorava jogos online, tendo 2200 máquinas espalhadas por todo o país. A fuga aos impostos atingirá cerca de 15 milhões de euros. A Unidade de Ação Fiscal (UAF) realizou ontem, terça-feira, em todo o país, cinco buscas domiciliárias...
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Two men have been ordered to pay over £32,000 in fines and legal costs to Kingston Council following a crackdown on illegal gambling at a London private members’ club. Nicholas Clark and Luke Flack pleaded guilty to gambling offences at Kingston Crown Court on Friday 29 April. The offence...
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Os dois melhores jogadores de badmínton do Japão, incluindo o novo número 2 do mundo, Kento Momota, estão em risco de falhar, por castigo, os Jogos Olímpicos do Rio de Janeiro. Os atletas do clube NTT East frequentaram, de forma ativa e repetida, casinos ilegais no Japão, um tipo de...
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A Japanese badminton player has admitted to gambling at an illegal casino, damaging his chances of competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Kento Momota gambled at a Tokyo casino which was raided by police last May and has since closed, Kyodo news reported yesterday. Momota, who is...
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Texas became the latest state to declare that daily fantasy sports sites violate state law, the state’s attorney general wrote in an opinion released on Tuesday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote “that a court would likely determine participation in daily fantasy sports leagues is illegal gambling” under state law....