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The Danish on/off-ramper Swapped is systematically acting as an integrated payment facilitator for illegal offshore gambling schemes. Following our discoveries of Swapped embedded in illicit casinos like Roobet and GamDom, our latest review of the Juice.gg scheme reveals Swapped operating as the platform's sole FIAT payment processor. By utilizing a deceptive two-step "fake fiat" rail, Swapped funnels European retail funds through its Banking Circle accounts in Munich directly into unlicensed offshore casino wallets.

The Dutch regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has imposed a €4,228,000 administrative fine on Starscream Limited for offering illegal online gambling to Dutch players via RantCasino, AllstarzCasino, and SugarCasino. The KSA explicitly frames enforcement as a “third-party” problem too—working with payment service providers, banks, hosting, and big tech—because unlicensed casinos don’t scale without rails.

Our review of offshore casino Legiano (legiano.com) shows a recurring “fake-fiat” deposit pattern: what is presented as a normal fiat top-up is, in reality, an embedded crypto purchase (USDC) that is automatically routed to the casino’s wallets via app.chainvalley.pro—with only minimal, pre-ticked disclosure.

Another day, another exposed illegal online casino facilitated via Cyprus. Payment processors play a crucial role in sustaining this underground economy. FinTelegram's research repeatedly reveals that without these facilitating payment processors, many illegal online schemes, particularly in the gambling sector, would not thrive. Currently, we are focusing on the brands of the collapsed Rabidi Group that continue to operate anonymously and unauthorized. Here is our report on Cazimbo.

It is currently common for online casino, sports betting and gambling operators equipped with an e-gaming license in Curacao to have a payment subsidiary in Cyprus. This also has the advantage of having a location in the EU. The operator of Bet Swagger, Usoftgaming N.V., has also chosen this structure and processes the payments of its customers via the Cyprus-registered Pulsion Processing Ltd. We have heard massive complaints from several customers of this scheme. Therefore, we issue a warning.

In our systematic screenings of payment processors, we have recently discovered that the payment processor Corefy (formerly PayCore), operated by Ukrainians around Denys Kyrychenko, facilitates, among others, the online casino, sports betting, and gambling scheme Mostbet. It processes deposits from Russian visitors via obscure domains. In addition to Corefy, we have discovered ChangeCoins for crypto and the Russian Perfect Money. Cyprus-based Venson Ltd operates Mostbet under a Curacao license.

the Spanish CNMV and other EU regulators issued investor warnings against the unauthorized offshore broker NewFX. Upon our report, NewFX changed its operating entity and domain. Currently, the operator allegedly is New Finance LLC, registered in Delaware; the active domain is www.newfx.us. NewFX is connected to other offshore brokers such as DBFX or OnspotBNK and to the FCA-regulated One Financial Markets. In our new review on 3 May 2022, we found Praxis Cashier as one of the facilitating payment processors.

A few weeks ago, we published our initial review about the offshore broker Alvexo is operated by HSN Capital Group Ltd, regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Seychelles. It is part of the CySEC-regulated Alvexo operated by VPR Safe Financial Group Ltd. The offshore broker accepts pre-KYC deposits with credit and debit cards, bank transfers, or e-wallets. In our follow-up review on May 2, 2022, we could have easily deposited €50,000 via bank transfer through the Nuvei cashier and optionally received a First Deposit Bonus of 30%.