Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society said it blocked 13,888 URLs linked to illegal gambling from 1 to 18 June. The ministry said the blocked material included operator websites and social media pages promoting illegal gambling, and that artificial intelligence helped identify and analyse sites.
Thailand’s action blocks illegal gambling websites and social media promotions identified with artificial intelligence.
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French police are reportedly investigating suspicious bets on Polymarket linked to the latest Ballon d’Or. Twelve accounts allegedly staked over 264m euro on the order of the first five finishers, with a reported profit of almost 200m dollars. France Football contacted police after receiving a warning before the final rankings were announced.
French police are reportedly investigating suspicious bets on Polymarket linked to the latest Ballon d’Or, placed from twelve accounts. The accounts were allegedly created by the same person between 1 and 20 October, just three days after the jury closed voting.
Utah has summoned Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara to appear in Salt Lake City on 4 December over 14 criminal charges filed by the state’s attorney general. Separately, the CFTC approved Sporttrade as a designated contract market, following its derivatives clearing organisation approval in mid-October; Sporttrade said it is onboarding brokers including Fliff.
Tarek Mansour, who serves as chief executive, and Luana Lopes Lara, the chief operating officer, are the co-founders of Kalshi facing 14 criminal charges in Utah state court. The state's attorney general, Derek Brown, brought 13 felony counts plus a single misdemeanor against the company in a late-October filing that also identified Mansour and Lara as co-defendants. An initial arraignment in Salt Lake City is scheduled for 4 December. Daniel Wallach wrote in a post that the company must "personally appear" at 8:30 a.m. that day before Salt Lake City's Third District Court.
Utah prosecutors filed 14 criminal counts each against Kalshi, chief executive Tarek Mansour and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara, according to the report. The charges include a second-degree felony allegation of a pattern of unlawful activity; Kalshi argues its CFTC-regulated products fall under federal jurisdiction, while Utah says federal registration does not exempt the company from state gambling restrictions.
Utah has filed 14 criminal counts each against Kalshi, chief executive Tarek Mansour and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara. The charges include a second-degree felony count of pattern of unlawful activity.
The Gambling Commission said it removed 3,038,969 URLs in the first six months of the 2026/27 financial year, after reporting 266,667 removals in the previous full year. Interim chief executive Sarah Gardner said the authority had also sent 1,005 cease-and-desist notices between April and September 2026 and presented survey results showing 4% of online gamblers, excluding National Lottery players, had used unauthorised sites in the 12 months before April 2026.
The UKGC had 3,038,969 URLs removed in the first six months of the 2026/27 financial year, according to interim chief executive Sarah Gardner. Gardner presented the results at the CEO Briefing on 5 November 2026. In the same period 7,824,932 URLs were reported to search engines. In the previous financial year 397,527 URLs were reported and 266,667 were removed.
ADM Calabria 2 cancelled two tax assessments against a restaurant-bar owner and the operator of three gaming totems in Isola di Capo Rizzuto. The authority cited failure to consider the taxpayers’ submissions; one 2021 assessment sought €176,040 in tax, plus €31,966.93 in interest and a €251,737 penalty, according to their appeal.
ADM Calabria 2 has cancelled two tax assessments issued on 4 September 2026 for the single tax (imposta unica) against the owner of a restaurant-pizzeria lounge bar in Isola di Capo Rizzuto and against the operator of three gaming totems found at the premises, according to the taxpayers' lawyer Bernardo Procopio of the Crotone bar. The office gave as its reason the failure to apply article 6 bis of law 212/2000, the provision of the taxpayers' rights statute on prior adversarial procedure. The assessments followed checks by the Crotone police headquarters on 8 and 10 February 2022, when officers found three devices connected to the electricity and internet networks but not to the state gaming collection network. According to the reports cited by ADM, the totems reproduced new slot-type games, allowed free internet browsing and gave access to gaming platforms run by parties without any concession or authorisation. The assessments stated that the parties had not submitted observations on the draft act, but their defence submissions had in fact been received on 11 December 2025 and the office had not responded to them as the rule requires.