The police in Daegu, South Korea, have arrested and handed over to the prosecution a suspected organizer of the country's largest infrastructure network for illegal online casinos, with total bets amounting to $6.5 billion.
According to the investigation, the top tier of this network included operators like SBOBET and Pinnacle, as well as providers Evolution and Pragmatic Play. The suspect was involved in issuing sublicenses for reselling live casino broadcasts and gaming credits through lower-tier partner structures of these brands.
The prosecution claims that the suspect initially managed his own illegal iGaming resources from the Philippines, with a total betting volume of $940 million. He later launched the K-PLAY platform, through which he sold ready-made infrastructure for online casinos and gaming credits, which operators credited to players' accounts instead of fiat currency.
More than 1,400 illegal Korean iGaming sites became clients of this platform, and the organizer personally earned $4.3 million from these operations. The suspect had been evading Interpol for a long time using fake passports, moving between Malaysia, Cambodia, and other countries, but was detained in the UAE and forcibly returned to South Korea with the assistance of local authorities.