Britain’s real life Spooks have been hitting the world’s online casinos and poker rooms to track down terrorists, it has been claimed. MI5 is targeting Internet gambling websites in a bid to trap the paymasters of al-Qaeda and other shady organisations who may be using them to launder money. The fear is the secret cash […]
Jan
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MI5 bets on catching al-Qaeda’s money launderers in online casinos
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Sep
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Dutch in tax threat to foreign online casinos
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Dutch MPs are discussing rules which would slap new taxes on ALL games of chance — including those provided by “illegal” online casinos. This is the second in six months the Senate has debated online gaming. In April, a plan to give the state-owned Holland Casino EXCLUSIVE rights to provide online gaming was chucked out […]
Sep
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Poor Atlantic island aims to launch gambling industry
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An isolated island nation says it will legalise casino gambling by the end of this year — even though the average wage is less than £650 A YEAR. Cape Verde — lying in the Atlantic 310 miles off Africa’s west — currently has no gambling laws but no organised gambling sector either. The former Portuguese […]