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O Governo belga decidiu proibir a publicidade ao jogo em múltiplas plataformas a partir de 1 de julho, numa tentativa de reprimir o vício e o endividamento, com uma nova proibição de anúncios em estádios e patrocínios desportivos numa data posterior. “O governo está profundamente preocupado com o impacto... -
As Filipinas vão suspender as operações de 175 empresas de jogo offshore e deportar cerca de 40.000 trabalhadores chineses, disse na segunda-feira um funcionário do Ministério da Justiça, no âmbito de uma repressão contra a notoriamente opaca indústria de jogos online. O setor emergiu nas Filipinas em 2016 e... -
A prisão de um legislador do Partido Liberal Democrata (PLD) por suspeita de suborno de uma operadora de jogo chinesa que concorre a um projeto de resort de casino destaca o potencial de corrupção que envolve os negócios lucrativos do setor. O governo diz que a sua política de... -
A China acusou as Filipinas de minar a sua repressão ao jogo transfronteiriço, dizendo que muitos dos seus cidadãos atraídos para trabalhar em empresas de jogos online são enganados, extorquidos e expostos à “escravidão moderna”. Enormes somas de divisas chinesas acabam por entrar nas Filipinas através de lavagem de... -
The founder of what had been one of the largest online poker websites agreed on Thursday to confront U.S. charges stemming from a long-running criminal case targeting internet firms like his operating illegally in the United States. Scott Tom, who founded Costa Rica-based Absolute Poker, pleaded not guilty in... -
Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud investors including family members and friends out of $38.5 million. Caspersen, who worked at a unit of investment banker Paul Taubman’s PJT... -
New Jersey’s cash-strapped coastal gambling hub of Atlantic City will submit an updated fiscal recovery plan to the state, local officials said on Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour bid to hold off a takeover of city government. Trenton rejected the city’s five-year plan on Tuesday, questioning the viability of a... -
The government of Macau on Wednesday said all casino operators in its territory had fulfilled commitments agreed in initial contracts signed over a decade ago, marking the culmination of a year-long review into the impact of the gambling industry. But the government said it would tighten regulations for junket... -
Ireland’s stalled plan to tax online gambling has been sent to the president to be signed into law, finance minister Michael Noonan said on Thursday, clearing the way to begin imposing the levy on bookmakers this year. The new tax comes as Paddy Power and other major bookmakers such... -
Massachusetts voters will have an opportunity in November to repeal a 2011 law legalizing gambling, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday, casting uncertainty over a years-long effort to bring casinos to the state. The question came before the court after Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley sought to block...
