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South Korea police shut 188 illegal gambling sites

The raid hit the line that built the sites. On 19 October 2026 Yonhap reported that the South Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency had apprehended 77 people and held 21 in custody. The group built and supplied 188 illegal gambling sites from March 2023 to July 2026. The bases were in South Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia. […]

Thailand’s URL blocks leave the top three without a successor

M98 kept first place as the three old leaders’ combined hold thinned to nearly half. On 5 October, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society restricted 945 075 online gambling URLs from October 2025 through September 2026. Officials plan to work with search engines so gambling sites and related pages are harder to find. Blask […]

Indonesia to block illegal bank accounts as iGaming grew 64.5% YoY

Komdigi’s account list got longer, and the instructions attached to it got wider. On 5 October Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) told commercial banks to run enhanced due diligence, block about 38 796 accounts tied to online gambling, or both. Banks must also close other accounts that match the same national identity number (NIK) and […]

iGaming demand in Pakistan hit a record in the month of the FIA crackdown

Investigators spent September tracing betting money through bank accounts and mobile wallets while players searched for betting apps more than ever before. On September 25, the Federal Investigation Agency booked eight suspects in Faisalabad over gambling platforms whose company accounts showed Rs119.93B (about $432M) in credit turnover, eight days after cricketer Mohammad Rizwan challenged a […]

Philippines arrests 244 foreigners in largest 2026 POGO raid

Raids on Philippines became the largest after POGO ban, while offshore demand fell more than 20% YoY. On 2 October the Bureau of Immigration, with the NBI and the Armed Forces, raided two Zamboanga Sibugay sites tied to banned POGO work. Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado called the raids the largest POGO bust of 2026. The […]

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