Questions over how FIBA s Global Betting Partner J9. com is licensed Sports Integrity Initiative

Questions over how FIBA’s Global Betting Partner J9.com is licensed

During the investigation of Sports Integrity Initiative, the question of how a huge companion of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has acquired the J9. com betting license. In fact, the company claims on his website that he has obtained permission from the Philippine rest Gambling Corporation (Pagcor). FIBA claims that J9 is operated under the license issued by Pagcor, but Pagcor's audit actually reveals that the No. 1 issued license is not distributed. I am.

FIBA agreed on October 9 with J9. com. According to the statement, the company was based in the Philippines in 2013, with more than 500 employees in eight states, saying, "It is committed to a serious situation in gambling, as well as the fairness of sports." The company claims that it has more than one million users, and a while ago Gabriel Batistot, a soccer tradition, became a brand ambassador.

Sports Integrity Initiatives found a licenseist in Pagcor 1 and pointed out that J9 was not listed in any of them. J9. com's website has little information about who is the owner.

The appropriate provider of "FIBA's first provider, as well as gambling operators, as well as gambling operators, as well as gambling operators, as well as gambling operators. Response Sports Intelry Initiative Inquiries, you can do it through the electrical and e-mail. At first glance, you can forget about {} people. "

However, Pagcor approved that J9. com did not fall under the license 1 issued. "Based on our external audit platform tests, it turned out that this website [J9. com] was not registered in any of our licenses," said Pagcor license.

According to the FIBA ​​statement on October 9, the marketing company was the media in the decision of the media partnership, a masspert nursing, FIBA ​​and Infront Sports & amp; amp; amp; Apart from this, FIBA ​​has partnered with Genius Sports to prevent the collection of unofficial data from FIBA ​​events, seriously appointing a popular lawyer Richard McLaren for 2020 conscience.

Genius Sports, McLaren, and Inflon are named as specialists in each field. Will the Sports Federation, which are the advisors, agree with the bookmaker and allow the details of this license from secrets? Apparently Fiba seems to be.

In response to an inquiry sent by the Sports Integrity Initiative, FIBA ​​said: "We can certify that J9 operates under a license that is published on the PAGCOR website that you refer to. However, due to the appropriate commitments of our agreements, in particular confidentiality, we are unable to give more detailed information about this license or other features of the third-party agreements.

Who owns J9?

Information about how PAGCOR - regulates the work of "offshore operators" (click, discover...)

It is necessary to explain a little about the relatively common practice of licensed operators engaged in online gambling. Gambling regulators are based in certain states or countries and regulate the work of gambling operators based in these states or countries.

However, the general practice of gambling regulators has been to grant licenses to offshore operators from countries/territories where similar standards apply in the regulator's view. In England, this took the form of a "white list" of countries/territories where, in the regulator's view, similar standards for operating in England were valid. Operators from these countries/territories, which were adopted until April 2009, were given the opportunity to present their proposals in England.

By 2014, the scheme was fully postponed. The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act of 2014 required operators with gambling facilities in England or targeting the English bazaar to obtain a license and pay the English gambling fee.

However, a similar "whitelist" scheme is in operation in the Philippines. Pagcor is a municipal corporation that operates some casinos, but also regulates gambling in the country. It has been regulating online gambling since 2016. As explained in the "Regulation" section of the company's website, only operators based in the Philippines who only take bets from "foreigners present overseas" have any chance of being regulated as "offshore operators".

In other words, to be set up as an "offshore operator", J9 needs to be based in the Philippines but only accept bets from offshore. However, exhaustive information on J9's whereabouts is rather difficult to find.

Global J9's website uses an English domain in the Indian Ocean and details its "monitoring" of individuals (click to discover...)

J9 seems to use the British Indian Ocean domain on the "global" J99. io site, including the same branding as J9. com. J9 Philippines has received licenses and regulations from the Philippine Gaming Regulation Committee to provide online service services. The J9 Philippines brand is under the control and jurisdiction of the First Cagayan Leisure & Amp; amp; amp; amp; resort Corporation (First Cagayan).

There is no Philippine Gaming Management Committee. There is a Philippine Gaming and Entertainment Council, but its role is to crack down on the illegal gambling of limited paid sports and entertainment games. It is not an online gambling regulatory organization. However, there is a First Cagayan Leisure and Resort Corporation, which functions as a license agency.

The FCLRC website describes the role of a license organization.

'First, Cagayan Leisure and Resort Corporation, корац, конолый пак ак аак кото IISH AND RESORTS Corporation, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Fields, Ool üceren. Let's introduce the website of World Corporation, a global travel agency; Porto Kagayan (CSEZFP) is on the FCLRC website. FCLRC also has a Caza Land Casino license.

The rules and rules of the interactive gambling of the Economic Zone and Kuaga's free port (PDF below) are based on the territory of the curling economic zone due to the rules of the rules for regulating offshore gambling Pagcor for gambling operators. be. They have shown that licensing costs $ 100 million to businesses for 10 years.

The FCLRC address is as shown in the company's report (click and open ...)

It should be noted that this sentence is published on the FCLRC website. According to the report, FCLRC's address is a small resort village in Kagayan, northern Philippines. Sports Fairness Initiative asked LRWC to see if he was the owner of FCLRC and whether the FCLRC owns the J9. com 2 site.

The actual site of FCLRC is a small resort village.

As shown on the CEZA (Office of the Economic Zagayan) website, FCLRC also functions as a gambling institution that can issue interactive and lan d-based gambling licenses without prior adjustment to Pagcor. The report states that Master Licenser will "function as a marketing and technical department of regulatory authorities and support regulatory authorities to monitor the activities of foreign companies engaged in online games."

CEZA has the ability to license the "offshore operator" without any work from Pagcor (click to display ...)

According to LRWC, FCLRC is considered to be one of these common internet games licensed organizations. The FCLRC was the main licensor of all gambling facilities to the national special ward and Kagayan Free Port, and was established by CEZA. It is responsible for issuing a license to gambling operators.

And J9. com is basically declared that it is under FCLRC's "director". What this actually means, it doesn't come out of the guess.

Of course, it is highly likely that J9 is based in the Philippines and is correctly regulated as an "offshore operator". But if so, why don't you profess? Why a secret?

Another possibility is that FCLRC actually owns and approves J9. If so, FCLRC is considered a licensed exhaust person in a special financial zone called Kagayan 2.

Another possibility is that FCLRC is definitely not owning J9, but gives permission to two foreign countries. In this case, there is a explanation that the Mass Domain exists in the British Indian Ocean.

But this is still illegal. For example, the standards and regulations for interactive gambling CSEZFP, such as Pagcor, are strongly demanded that the "offshore operator" is based in the Philippines.

The above scenario is speculation under the surface and is not expressed. There seems to be a meaningful comment, but LRWC and FCLRC did not answer any questions by Electric Mail 2.

Due diligence

Usually, when a paid match is determined, a group test is performed to identify all skeletons in the cabinet. At the end of our survey on J9. com, it is not yet clear who is licensing this website, who owns it, and where it is at the physical level. FIBA seems to be convinced that the website is licensed and can be adjusted, but almost all details have been revealed.

Sports Integrity Initiatives requested FIBA ​​to see who performed a comprehensive test for the transaction, but has not yet been answered. It is considered unrealistic to sign a large partnership agreement with a betting operator in a place where the United Nations requires a secret protection of licensing agreements. At least FIBA ​​is not.

-This notebook was created as a part of the survey conducted under the subsidies of the Journalism Investigation for Europe (IJ4EU).

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