888 stakes $3 bln to buy William Hill businesses
888 will buy William Hill’s business outside the United States from casino group Caesars (CZR.O) for 2.2 billion pounds ($3 billion), making a foray on...
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Atletico’s Trippier banned for 10 weeks over betting rules breach
Atletico Madrid and England defender Kieran Trippier has been suspended for 10 weeks and fined 70,000 pounds ($94,052.00) following a breach of betting rules, the...
Percentage of gambling profits supports those addicted
Around €500,000 has been used on measures aiming to prevent gambling addiction, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said in response to a parliamentary question, it was...
Audit office says reasonable suspicion of widespread tax evasion by betting companies
The audit service said Tuesday there was reasonable suspicion of widespread tax evasion by betting companies because of the inadequate coordination between the national betting...
CFA opposes bill to exclude it from betting gains
The Cyprus Football Association said on Tuesday it opposes a bill that would take away its share from the state’s betting revenues because it would...
Parliament ends Opap monopoly
By Evie Andreou The House plenum on Friday passed a law which puts an end to the monopoly of Opap Cyprus in lottery games and...
Royal Highgate betting has licence suspended
The National Betting Authority announced on Tuesday that it has suspended the operations licence of Royal Highgate Public Company Ltd for two months for non-compliance...
Police investigate intense betting activity ahead of Ermis-Doxa match
CID officers from police HQ were investigating on Saturday reports that intense betting activity had been noticed before kick-off in the game between Ermis and...
CFA fines teams €50,000 for match-fixing
The football association (CFA) has fined two top flight teams €50,000 each after they were implicated in suspicious betting activity by the European governing body...
State losing €1m a month from Opap monopoly
AN INTERSTATE agreement with Greece, giving betting giant Opap a monopoly on lottery number games here, is heavily skewed against Cyprus, the auditor-general said on...
Party over for betting mafia, CFA boss says
The party is over for the betting mafia, Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the Cyprus football association president said Monday at an extraordinary general meeting that focused on...
Another new notification for football body
The Cyprus football association had received yet another notification of suspicious betting activity on a fixture that took place last week. The notification, the fifth...
Fourth football notification received
The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received a fresh notification about suspicious betting activity related to a fixture played on last Monday. According to the...
CFA receives third notification about suspicious betting
The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received a third notification about suspicious betting activity related to a particular fixture, the second involving one team. The...
Second suspicious betting notification received by CFA
The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received a second notification about suspicious betting activity related to a particular fixture. The notification concerns the first division...
Suspicious betting seen in AEZ-Apollonas game
THE Cyprus football association (CFA) has already received the first notification about suspicious betting activity in relation with a fixture just as the season begins....
Cyprus and Bulgaria top match-fixing league
By Constantinos Psillides CYPRUS, along with Bulgaria, tops the list of match-fixing in top European national leagues, according to the international match fixing watchdog Federbet....
Gambling raid in Nicosia
Nicosia police arrested two people and confiscated a number of computers and televisions from a betting shop in Strovolos as part of an operation to...
A coherent gambling policy is desperately needed
By Costas Apostolides THE GOVERNMENT’S plans to legalise casinos have gone down well with business groups, the public and the tourist industry, but it essentially...