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MLS suspends Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah for gambling-rule breaches

Enforcement & compliance

Major League Soccer issued lifetime suspensions to Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah for betting on soccer, including matches involving their own teams, during the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The league said the players may have shared information about their intentions to receive yellow cards; the only wager it identified was on Jones to be booked in a 19 October 2024 match.

The lifetime bans and scrutiny of yellow-card wagers highlight integrity risks for clubs, players and betting operators.

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Telegram betting channels continue promotions despite Brazil ban

A media investigation found 87 domains offering betting and withdrawals across six Telegram channels, a month after Brazil’s provisional measure prohibited betting platforms. The channels had more than 43 mil subscriptions, and none of the domains ended in .bet.br; the Finance Ministry’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting said it had blocked more than 47 mil illegal sites since the measure was issued.

Betting channels on Telegram are still advertising games and referral bonuses in Brazil, a month after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a provisional measure banning betting platforms, Metrópoles reported. Its investigation found 87 distinct domains advertised in six channels with more than 43 mil subscriptions combined. None of the 87 domains had the ending that had identified federally authorised platforms before the ban.

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