Author: Luci Kelemen

Everton U21 forward Martin Sherif has been charged by the English Football Association over 61 alleged bets on football matches between Nov. 20, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2026. The case lands three months after Entain warned Everton about its crypto-linked sponsor Stake, although the FA statement does not identify the operator used or connect the

Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset has urged FIFA to begin work on a new integrity framework for the 2030 World Cup, directly linking player-action betting and FIFA’s own prediction-market sponsorship with an increased risk of match manipulation.   FIFA’s Promised Safeguards May Not be Sufficient Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset called

Polymarket paid a network of social-media creators to stage bets and winnings on near-perfect replicas of its website, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. This was part of a campaign aimed at U.S. users; the platform is legally barred from serving. Bets that never happened Polymarket paid mostly college-age social-media creators to stage bets…

Kalshi has launched a demo environment for leveraged trading via a margin trading API that appears to be hidden from public navigation, as first reported by Ingame, but the demo only covers crypto perpetual futures and not the event contracts that built the platform. With real-life margin trades “coming soon,” the scope of the initial

Turkish authorities have taken legal action against 233 more illegal betting suspects in Antalya and Mersin operations announced Monday, pushing the eight-day enforcement tally past 670 across four major raids. The earlier Adana investigation that arrested pro-government commentator Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı named cryptocurrency platforms among the alleged laundering channels…