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Online Casinos and Football Corruption

Corruption in the online casino gambling industry has become a really big deal these days as more and more attention focuses on the sporting industries and maintaining the integrity of sports. The football industry in particular seems highly subject to criminal interactions with the integrity of the sport. Football, and by that I mean soccer for USers, is internationally popular and a sport that has fans in every region of the world. The fact of the matter is this –every betting market on the globe, either at the land or the online casinos, has bettors with a keen interest in football. That is one of the sports biggest problems –the international element of the game lends itself to an increased interest in corruption and criminal activity that smaller regional sports sometimes do not face.

A lot of money changes hands in the sports betting industry and football is just about the most popular international sport. Basically, new studies by the Financial Action Task Force indicate that football is an attractive sport for dishonest persons looking to stir up criminal trouble. One issue that has been scrutinized a lot recently is the fact that the regulatory framework around the sport has not altered to meet the growing popularity. The means that as the numbers of international viewers and online casino bettors grows in the multiple millions (as many as 1 billion people world wide watched the FIFA Cup Finals. in 2006), there is an definite increased need for new measures designed to protect the integrity of the sport.

Criminal activity also involves situations that don’t necessarily compromise the integrity of the sport. In Asia, online casino sports betting is illegal, but that hasn’t stopped a huge underground illegal betting market from generating billions in profits.