In Ukraine, software is being created that will allow for the automated detection of illegal online casinos, in particular those operating under the guise of Ukrainian brands but managed from the territory of the Russian Federation.
In Ukraine, software is being created that will allow for the automated detection of illegal online casinos, in particular those operating under the guise of Ukrainian brands but managed from the territory of the Russian Federation.
A group of legal gambling operators have joined forces to jointly finance the creation of specialized software to detect illegal online casinos. The project is being implemented by a newly formed industry association, which includes companies with their own IT teams. In total, they employ more than 900 specialists, writes DOU .
It is expected that the developed software solution will be able to scan the Ukrainian Internet segment for resources that conduct gambling activities without a license. The priority is resources that imitate legal operators, but are actually controlled from the Russian Federation.
The association is already cooperating with the PlayCity State Agency and the SBU. The software will be integrated into the state monitoring infrastructure to make blocking faster and legal confirmation of illegal status automated.
More than 50 illegal online casinos are still operating in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. Some of them continue to advertise on social networks and use the former reputation of Ukrainian brands, although their owners have long been associated with the Russian Federation.
Against this backdrop, in March the government created a new state regulator , the PlayCity agency. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Digital Affairs and replaced the liquidated KRAIL. After its launch, the agency already managed to revoke the license of the well-known brand PIN-UP, one of the co-founders of which was a Russian citizen.
The development of tools to combat illegal gambling is one of the first public steps of the new industry association. It is expected that the software solution will be adapted not only for manual analysis, but also for further integration into Internet monitoring systems and registries.
Recall, we recently wrote about how the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv allowed the transfer of seized cryptocurrencies to the ARMA department, which the investigation links to an illegal online casino and money laundering through Binance.
