Category: MGA

B90 Holdings with Bet90 Sports and its cybercrime legacyB
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August 21, 2021

Background Report – International cybercrime, Bet90, and the dirty Maltese connections!

It was perhaps the largest cybercrime organization in Europe, but certainly, it was in Germany. The public prosecutor's office announced that the cybercrime case surrounding the German Uwe Lenhoff, who died in prison, had produced more than 200,000 victims in Germany alone. Lenhoff and Dutch real estate investor Dirk-Jan Bakker established Veltyco Group PLC, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. After Lenhoff's death, the company was renamed B90 Holdings PLC and operates the Bet90 sportsbook platform , licensed by the MGA. Bet90 has been funded with money stolen from the victims in this very same cybercrime case.
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LEAD Training Services of James GrechM
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August 7, 2021

Malta’s compliance issues – MGA executive James Grech and his private ventures

Another issue in Malta's long list of regulatory compliance incidents came up. Malta is a popular place for gambling licenses issued and regulated by the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA). But like MFSA, MGA has serious issues with itself. It turned out that its Chief Officer Internal Audit James Grech was working on private business while in office, raising conflict of interest concerns, our sources say. He was providing LEAD Training Services in anti-money laundering, MLRO, internal auditing, and other gaming-related topics. Malta, for sure, has a big problem with its regulators and war grey-listed for good reasons!
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Greylisted Malta and its disgraced regulatorsG
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July 12, 2021

Greylisted Malta and its disgraced regulators!

The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) of Malta is being highly criticized for paying Maltese online portals and newspapers for positive reportage in its regard. This is very telling and indeed shocking for a European country. Only last month, Malta has been placed on the grey list by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which makes the European tax haven much less attractive. Who wants to be a tax resident or owner of a company in a grey-listed jurisdiction? And then there's the strange approach of the Maltese regulators.
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