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Turkey’s Milli Piyango submits 420,000 complaints over illegal gambling

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Turkey’s national lottery office, Milli Piyango İdaresi, submitted a dossier containing 420,000 criminal complaints against websites promoting illegal gambling, its chairman Ekrem Candan said. Candan also presented data identifying 239,000 domains allegedly breaching Turkish gambling laws to the Financial Crimes Investigation Board, MASAK.

The complaint and domain figures indicate the scale of illegal gambling activity targeted by Turkish authorities.

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