Talca municipality identified 28 venues operating gambling games and betting machines irregularly and began administrative closure procedures. Mayor Juan Carlos Díaz said the municipality was preparing the required decrees and expected the closures to be carried out within 15 days; police support may be sought if needed.
The planned closures could remove 28 irregular gambling venues from operation in Talca.
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Gamecheck said it had identified more than 6,800 suspected illegal casino sites linked to Brazil since its monitoring began, including 5,000 found in the first half of 2026. The company also reported that more than 8,000 fake casino games had been recorded worldwide since its platform launched.
Kangwon Land said its staff joined a multi-agency operation on Tuesday at four venues in Sabuk, Gangwon Province, suspected of illegal gambling. Authorities seized 18 devices, and police arrested six suspects over alleged breaches of the Game Industry Promotion Act, according to the report.
German investigators carried out a coordinated operation targeting suspected illegal gambling at a nail salon and a former restaurant, reportedly. Officers initially could not enter the salon and called a locksmith; at the second location, they found slot machines. The report also describes people fleeing from a neighbouring flat that was not on the operation’s list.
Brazilian authorities identified 506 domains suspected of offering irregular betting after a provisional measure prohibited fixed-odds betting and online games, the report said. Ciberlab also found about 1,960 Google advertisements linked to seven domains between 25 and 27 September, but could not establish whether all breached the prohibition; existing adverts had until 5 October to be removed.
The IBJR said its monitoring had identified 60,477 suspected betting addresses in Brazil since it began tracking them after the betting prohibition. Its LegitBet system found betting-operation indicators on 34,134 sites, while the IBJR noted that these were database entries, not necessarily newly created sites, and did not replace authority reviews.
The Brazilian Responsible Gambling Institute (IBJR) said its monitoring had identified 60,477 addresses suspected of offering betting since it began tracking them after betting was prohibited in Brazil. In 34,134 of those sites, the institute's LegitBet system found elements characteristic of betting operations, such as bonus offers, Pix payments and registration forms, according to the institute. The data was updated to Tuesday 27 October.