A reported breach of the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s licensing system exposed ownership and regulatory records linked to hundreds of gambling firms. The investigation identified records covering 646 entities, while the authority acknowledged that some licences had been issued before ownership questions were resolved.
Operators and regulators face renewed scrutiny of Curaçao licence-holder ownership records and oversight.
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CasinoNieuws.nl reported on 14 October 2026 that Follow The Money found Curaçao’s Gaming Authority did not seek US court documents concerning Nicholas Beugg, co-owner of Blaze with Nick van Gorsel. The CGA accepted a trust office’s explanation that Beugg had been mistaken for another person, although Follow The Money said the records shared identifying details with Blaze’s owner.
Curaçao's Gaming Authority (CGA) did not examine US court documents concerning Nicholas Beugg, co-owner of the online casino Blaze, when it assessed the company's licence application, according to a report by Follow The Money cited in a 14 October 2026 article. The CGA accepted an explanation from Trustkantoor Emoore that Beugg had been mistaken for another person, the report said.
Brazil’s prosecutor-general, Paulo Gonet, asked the Supreme Federal Court on 6 November to suspend nationwide legal cases challenging Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux had not ruled on the request by the report’s publication; Gonet said parallel cases risk inconsistent application of the measure.
Paulo Gonet, the prosecutor-general of Brazil, went to the Supreme Federal Court with a request to halt, across the whole country, the lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, the text that banned fixed-odds betting. The filing reached the court on the night of Friday 6 November and was directed to Justice Luiz Fux, who is the rapporteur of the betting cases there. As of the closing of the report, no decision from Fux had been issued.
The president of Brazil’s Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region suspended a decision restoring CDA Gaming’s authorisation to operate fixed-odds betting, reportedly on 6 November. The ruling extends an earlier suspension involving Stake and removes the exception that had allowed Casa de Apostas to operate while other licences were inactive. The court president said he was not reviewing the underlying merits of the earlier decision.
Luis Antonio Johonsom di Salvo, who presides over the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3), overturned on Friday night the decision that had restored CDA Gaming Ltda.'s authorisation to operate fixed-odds betting in Brazil. The document was signed at 18h37 and responds to a request from the União to amend its filing. As a result, CDA now bears the effects of the 9 October decision that suspended Stake's injunction from the 9th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo.
Stake Italia national director Fabio Angeli Bufalini said the impact of Italy's new online gambling concession regime would be clearer once its technical rules are fully implemented. He described the first year as a transition and cited 46 companies and 52 authorised domains, compared with more than 300 previously.
Stake is among the international operators that entered the Italian online gambling market through the new concession allocation procedure, and the concrete effects of the new regime can only be assessed once the new technical rules are fully applied, Fabio Angeli Bufalini, national director of Stake Italia, said at a panel on the regime a year after its introduction. The first year should be treated as a transition because a significant part of the regulatory changes has yet to take full effect, he said, pointing to the period after 15 February as an important step for understanding the impact of the changes.
Stake Italy national director Fabio Angeli Bufalini called for joint responsible-gambling campaigns involving ADM and the health ministry at Sigma World in Rome. He said the new online rules had not yet been fully implemented and that their effects would become clearer in the future; Stake Italy also plans to propose changes to AGCOM’s infotainment consultation.
Fabio Angeli Bufalini, national director of Stake Italy, spoke at Sigma World in Rome on a panel about the new online gambling regime in Italy one year on. He called for a common approach with ADM and the health ministry on joint campaigns that are not left to a single operator. Bufalini said Stake Italy is investing in a campaign that communicates responsible gambling rather than customer acquisition. He said that without a joint approach the campaigns amount to marketing and are seen as hypocritical by consumers.