{"id":777009791,"date":"2023-10-02T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009791"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:35:54","slug":"india-11-arrested-for-allegedly-taking-bets-on-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-11-arrested-for-allegedly-taking-bets-on-cricket","title":{"rendered":"India: 11 arrested for allegedly taking bets on cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian police say they have frozen 63 bank accounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in India have arrested 11 people allegedly involved in illegal online betting on cricket. An investigation was initiated following a complaint from someone who reported losing Rs 8 lakh. Police say they have frozen 63 bank accounts after discovering international transactions amounting to Rs 367 over the past two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to New Indian Express, online betting was conducted through various mobile applications, with the mastermind amassing profits of Rs 5 crore to Rs 6 crore per match. Officers say the accused used special software to manipulate outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-32-arrested-over-alleged-gambling-operation-at-resort\" target=\"_blank\">India: 32 arrested over alleged gambling operation at resort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police say they have frozen 63 bank accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indian authorities have arrested 11 individuals and frozen 63 bank accounts linked to an illegal online cricket betting operation. The illicit enterprise, which allegedly used specialized software to manipulate outcomes and processed international transactions totaling Rs 367 crore, highlights significant challenges in regulatory enforcement and market integrity within India's burgeoning iGaming landscape.","focusai_entities":"Police","focusai_location":"India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.85), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Countermeasures?","query":"What specific regulatory and technological countermeasures are being considered to mitigate such sophisticated illegal betting operations in India?"},{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market?","query":"How do these large-scale illicit GGR flows impact the potential for a regulated iGaming market in India and the valuation models for prospective operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777009791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009791","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=777009791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041228,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009791\/revisions\/777041228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}