{"id":777011108,"date":"2023-11-14T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011108"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:38:02","slug":"india-9-arrested-for-alleged-cricket-world-cup-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-9-arrested-for-alleged-cricket-world-cup-betting","title":{"rendered":"India: 9 arrested for alleged Cricket World Cup betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Karnataka made the arrests during the England vs Pakistan ICC World Cup match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Hubli and Dharwad, Karnataka, have arrested nine people allegedly linked to cricket betting. Officers say seven cases have been registered following the England vs Pakistan ICC World Cup match on Saturday. The arrests made in simultaneous raids led to the seizure of \u20b929,610 in cash and two mobile handsets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a report by the\u00a0Think Change Forum (TCF)\u00a0has estimated that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-loses-us48-8bn-annually-to-illegal-betting-and-gambling-sites\" target=\"_blank\">tax authorities in India are losing Rs 3.9 lakh crore (US$48.8bn) annually<\/a>\u00a0to illegal betting and gambling websites. The report suggests the illegal offshore betting market is now valued at approximately Rs 8.2 lakh crore, with an annual growth rate of 30 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Karnataka made the arrests during the England vs Pakistan ICC World Cup match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18986,"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 Karnataka, India, arrested nine individuals for illegal cricket betting, seizing cash and mobile devices. Concurrently, a Think Change Forum report highlights that India's tax authorities are losing an estimated US$48.8 billion annually to an illegal offshore betting market valued at Rs 8.2 lakh crore, growing at 30% per year.","focusai_entities":"Think Change Forum","focusai_location":"India, Karnataka, Hubli, Dharwad","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Path?","query":"What specific legislative or policy initiatives are being considered by the Indian government to transition this substantial unregulated betting market into a formal, taxable sector, and what is the projected timeline for such reforms?"},{"label":"Impact on Legal Operators?","query":"How does the continued proliferation of the illegal offshore betting market, as quantified by the TCF report, impact the operational viability and market entry strategies for prospective licensed iGaming operators in India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-777011108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011108","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=777011108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040969,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011108\/revisions\/777040969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}