Leaked Curaçao Gaming Authority records reportedly raise questions about documents submitted in Tether.bet’s now-defunct licence application. A property sale document was presented as evidence of funding, but people identified in related records reportedly said they had never met the applicant and knew nothing of him. George Cottrell denied any operational or ownership role in Tether.bet.
Questions are being raised about the route by which Tether.bet secured its Curaçao gambling licence, after an investigation connected the application to paperwork that may not have been authentic. The matter surfaced when the hacker Lilith Wittman breached systems of the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) last month, laying bare thousands of files on licensed gambling operators, among them ownership details, compliance records and business plans. Democracy for Sale examined material from the leak and passed it to The Times, whose own checks followed. That material reportedly covered documents filed as part of the now-defunct Tether.bet licensing process.