{"id":777013730,"date":"2024-03-06T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013730"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:21:20","slug":"india-3-arrested-in-goa-over-illegal-cricket-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-3-arrested-in-goa-over-illegal-cricket-betting","title":{"rendered":"India: 3 arrested in Goa over illegal cricket betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A raid was conducted at Salvador do Munro, Bardez,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Goa have made three arrests in a raid on a private bungalow in the north district. Porvorim police inspector PI Rahul Parab told Daiji World that the raid was conducted at Salvador do Munro, Bardez, after receiving a tip-off about cricket betting.\u00a0Officers seized mobile phones, a laptop, a wifi router, and other items worth Rs 1.7 lakhs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A case has been filed under the Goa Daman and Diu Public Gambling Act&#8217;s sections 3 and 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A report by the Think Change Forum (TCF) has estimated that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-loses-us48-8bn-annually-to-illegal-betting-and-gambling-sites\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tax authorities in India are losing Rs 3.9 lakh crore (US$48.8bn) annually<\/a>&nbsp;to 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>A raid was conducted at Salvador do Munro, Bardez,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24985,"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 Goa, India, conducted a raid on an illegal cricket betting operation, leading to arrests and seizure of assets. This incident underscores the broader challenge of illicit gambling in India, with a Think Change Forum report estimating annual tax losses of US$48.8 billion from an illegal offshore betting market valued at Rs 8.2 lakh crore and growing at 30% annually.","focusai_entities":"Porvorim police, PI Rahul Parab, Daiji World, Think Change Forum (TCF)","focusai_location":"India, Goa, Salvador do Munro, Bardez, Porvorim","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India iGaming Regulation","query":"What specific policy initiatives or regulatory frameworks are being considered by Indian authorities to transition the estimated Rs 8.2 lakh crore illegal betting market into a regulated, taxable iGaming sector?"},{"label":"Tax Revenue Impact","query":"How does the reported US$48.8 billion annual tax revenue loss from illegal gambling influence the urgency and scope of potential federal or state-level iGaming legislation in India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-777013730","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\/777013730","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=777013730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013733,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013730\/revisions\/777013733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}