Ulsan’s Nambu Police Department said it arrested two suspected ringleaders and 62 suspected account mules in a case involving online gambling sites and other alleged laundering. Police said the network used 76 bank accounts to launder 200 million won over four months; the investigation is continuing.
The case signals enforcement scrutiny of payment channels allegedly used by illegal gambling operators.
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South Korea’s National Police Agency said it arrested 2,319 people in 1,746 cases during a seven-month operation against cyber gambling that began in November 2025. Police said they seized KRW107.2bn in criminal proceeds, about two and a half times the amount seized in the same period a year earlier. The operation also targeted major site operators and people suspected of supplying technology for illegal gambling sites.
Busan Metropolitan Police Agency said it had arrested 23 people in an investigation into an illegal gambling operation based in Busan. The operation allegedly handled $1.4bn in wagers from April 2022 to September 2025, while the ring itself generated $2.4m; police are seeking another suspect believed to have fled to the Philippines.
Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau arrested 20 suspects in a money-laundering investigation linked to Macau casinos, according to the report. It said prosecutors in Yunlin indicted the case after raids and alleged that about NT$330bn was laundered between mid-2024 and mid-2025 through a scheme involving credit-card overpayments and casino chips.
Brazil’s SPA has issued an ordinance setting rules for banks to block accounts belonging to unauthorised betting operators. The measure also specifies indicators of fraudulent transactions.
Brazil's Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA), part of the Ministry of Finance, has published Ordinance SPA/MF No. 2.750, which sets out how banks, payment institutions and payment arrangement providers must identify, block and report transactions linked to unauthorised fixed-odds betting operators. The ordinance was signed by SPA secretary Daniele Correa Cardoso on 10 September 2026 and published in the Official Gazette on Monday 14 September, according to the ministry. It replaces Ordinance SPA/MF No. 566 of 20 March 2025, which addressed the same subject in more general terms.
UKGC reported that police arrested two people on suspicion of gambling offences in Bristol and subsequently released both on bail. Harbourside officers searched Lower College Street premises on 10 July with UKGC enforcement staff and SWROCU.