I've found some stuff regarding Goldenbet, their merchant thing on my statement is Nikotpf active web lim, i've done some sleuthing and found that there's a few other Nikotpfs on this forum and another,such as WynActive NikoTPF*Aqua Pulse London (cant find much on this one) Nikotpf NOHTOS (again, yet to find anything on this one) Nikotpf*Nexpulse (same again) Nikotpf Novavogue,i think that's linked to a "clothes company" and Nikotpf DNELECTRO, which is a uk based electronics website it seems under the umbrella company of green lemon group ltd, i've kept an eye on it and they've changed their registered address at least three times in the last week according to public government documents, which leads me to believe that's another scam website that's just used for money/transaction laundering, interestingly enough there's a name as they have to register the LTD company in the UK to operate here, there's one registered director under the company name listed as a Vladimirs BICKOVSKIS, who's currently based in Latvia according to the public government documents? don't know if anyone's any good at digging up any more information?
https://www.transaction-laundering.eu/blacklist
there was also this blog that was posted in the thread earlier regarding transaction laundering which covers both them and santeda on the blacklist.
would also tie in with this reuters article
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gambling-usa-dummies-exclusive-idUSKBN19D137
Santeda International (parent company of Goldenbet and some other online casinos operating without a license, have been found guilty and sanctioned by the Australian government, Swedish and Spanish government for operating multiple URLs to bypass their prohibition, aswell as illegal gambling,that coupled with the third party merchants makes this an obvious illegal operation with the aim appearing to be to scam customers out of money, below is evidence listed of sanctions)
https://www.acma.gov.au/publications/2024-02/instruction/formal-warning-santeda-international-bv-and-santeda-international-limited-golden-bet (australia)
https://paymentexpert.com/2024/06/18/swedens-illegal-skin-gambling/ (Sweden)
https://sbcnews.co.uk/europe/uk/2023/11/10/dgoj-black-market-exposure/
https://focusgn.com/spain-fines-against-online-gambling-hit-e71m-in-q1 (spain)
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