{"id":24035,"date":"2021-10-29T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:18:47","slug":"india-9-arrested-over-online-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-9-arrested-over-online-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 9 arrested over online illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine people are accused of being involved in online gambling operations during the Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India.- Police have carried out a raid and&nbsp;<strong>arrested nine people in Tamil Nadu\u2019s Kallakurichi<\/strong>. According to The Indian Express, those arrested were making illegal bets through an app called 1X Bet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers said one of the men had contacted the owner of the app, who is reportedly in Russia, and offered to provide new customers in exchange for a commission. The rest of the people were employees who started to work eight months ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those arrested are aged 27. During the raid, police seized money, laptops, monitors, fingerprint scanners, 30 mobile phones, 400 SIM cards, a car and a motorbike. Police said those involved in the operation had programmed the application in such a manner that they could choose the winner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-police-raid-2-illegal-gambling-dens-in-patrapur\">police arrested 11 people in two raids<\/a>&nbsp;in the Patrapur area in Ganjam district where two illegal gambling dens were operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to police,<strong>&nbsp;one of the raids ended with six people arrested&nbsp;<\/strong>for illegal gambling. During the bust, police seized a total of Rs18,260. In the&nbsp;<strong>second raid, five gamblers were arrested<\/strong>&nbsp;and Rs9,300 was seized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people are accused of being involved in online gambling operations during the Covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Police in India have arrested nine individuals in Tamil Nadu for operating an illegal online gambling scheme via the 1X Bet app, which was reportedly programmed to manipulate outcomes. This follows a separate raid in Ganjam district where 11 people were arrested for illegal gambling dens. The operations involved significant seizures of cash, technology, and vehicles, highlighting persistent challenges in regulatory compliance and enforcement against illicit iGaming activities.","focusai_entities":"1X Bet","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu, Kallakurichi, Ganjam district, Patrapur area, Russia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Gaps?","query":"What specific regulatory gaps in India's current iGaming framework facilitate the proliferation of such illegal online gambling operations, particularly those with cross-border operational components like 1X Bet's alleged Russian connection?"},{"label":"Impact on Licensing Frameworks?","query":"How will this enforcement action influence the broader regulatory landscape for iGaming in India, and what implications does it have for the potential development or refinement of B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks and governance structures?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24063,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions\/24063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}