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Friends, here’s a fresh news digest:
🇮🇩 Indonesia — authorities suspended food aid to 1,49 million households over suspicions that recipients used the funds for online betting.
🇲🇿 Mozambique — the country approved its first separate rules for online gambling. Digital betting will now have its own regulatory and licensing regime, separate from land-based casinos.
🇰🇪 Kenya — gambling companies are challenging new licensing fees in court, which in some cases have increased by tens or even hundreds of times. The maximum increase reaches 500-fold.
🇧🇷 Brazil — the government is preparing to introduce a selective tax on online betting in 2027. This will be another step in tightening control over betting: the country is already implementing stricter rules for bookmakers’ advertising.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh — authorities continue to block financial accounts linked to online gambling, fraud, and money laundering. Earlier, a court had already sanctioned the freezing of hundreds of accounts that, according to investigators, processed billions this way.
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