Iranβs Intelligence Ministry has efficiently dismantled the most important organized on-line playing and betting community working throughout the nation, directed by entities primarily based within the UK.
In an announcement launched on Saturday, the ministry declared this important achievement, attributing it to 14 months of meticulous intelligence gathering and surveillance.
The community, using a classy infrastructure, managed to defraud substantial quantities of cash, using 35,006 financial institution accounts, 1,200 fee gateways, and working 54 main playing and betting web sites.
Described as a βLondon-based mafia community,β its modus operandi concerned depositing a portion of acquired funds into gambler accounts as fictitious βwinnings,β whereas transferring important sums abroad to the UK.
The ministry revealed that the UK authorities turned a blind eye to the communityβs illicit actions, tacitly endorsing cash laundering and different illegal operations in trade for hefty tax revenues from their features. This tacit approval successfully facilitated the legal actions of the perpetrators, as acknowledged within the ministryβs launch.
Moreover, the ministryβs operatives apprehended 5 managers working the βNitro guessβ community and the βPardakht.meβ fee gateway, charging them with financial sabotage, managing on-line playing institutions, and buying illicit proceeds.
Highlighting that the UK-based communityβs actions prolonged past fraudulence, the ministry emphasised its ongoing efforts to normalize playing practices via varied media channels, regardless of their prohibition in accordance with Islamic rules.
