Author: Paul Brooks

The UK gambling platform and software company Bede Gaming has been selected by the gambling monopolist in the Canadian province of Ontario – the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) – as its new digital platform supplier. The partnership agreement with OLG was confirmed by the UK online gambling software […]

A manager of an Edmonton-situated convenience store got a 12-month imprisonment sentence after being convicted for a lottery fraud which took place for a year. In addition, the man, whose name is Hassan Karim Choudhry, will have to pay back a total of CA$257,799. The 32-year-old convenience store manager heard […]

The opponents of slot machines in the state of Idaho claim that “historical horse racing terminals”, as Proposition 1 supporters call them, will not save racing. According to Jonathan Krutz, who is a marketing and economics lector at Boise State University, what the proposal actually does is calling for local […]

At the end of June 2018, the former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Peter German released the results of his independent investigation into alleged money-laundering schemes, Lower Mainland casinos were called “laundromats” used for washing the illegal money of organized crime groups. It became clear that the problem is far […]

Yesterday, an administrative law judge ruled against thoroughbred trainers and breeders by supporting the decision of Florida gambling regulators, under which Calder Race Course would be able to keep its slot-machine operating license after knocking the grandstand down. It was the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association which filed the […]

A Mandel family was sentenced to prison in a Milton courtroom on Tuesday on allegations in taking part into a massive insider lottery scam which forced the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) to start using stricter security measures. The case dates back more than 14 years. Back in April […]

For several months, gambling operators, game publishers, sports teams and other businesses have been focused on creating a stable presence with legal e-sports gambling in the US. Thanks to the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the federal ban under which sports betting was prohibited in the country, the […]

The British Columbia Attorney General David Eby shared that public inquiry into the province’s casino money laundering case remains possible. In an interview with The Vancouver Sun and The Province, Mr. Eby discussed a wide range of topics, including one of the hottest issues in the province, namely the possibility […]

The new anti-money laundering requirements in British Columbia are being blamed by casino owners for a decline registered in the gaming revenue of the River Rock and Parq casinos. According to financial results which have been recently revealed by the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (GCCC), a decline was registered in […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has entitled new Minister Bill Blair with the task to oppose organized crime money laundering, especially in the province of British Columbia. PM Trudeau handed a mandate letter to Minister Blair to emphasize on his Government’s engagement to actively help in solving the crisis of money […]