The Poker Police is an independent, research-driven watchdog organization dedicated to identifying, documenting, and publicly exposing illegal online gambling syndicates operating in violation of the laws of the United States of America, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. Founded on the principle that no criminal enterprise — regardless of scale or the complexity of its offshore structure — is above the law, The Poker Police has devoted thousands of hours to building a comprehensive, evidence-based case against the world's largest illegal online gambling operations.

The organization operates as a think-tank and public awareness body. Its mission encompasses four primary objectives: (1) the identification and documentation of illegal online gambling syndicates and their named operators; (2) the distribution of investigative research packages to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and elected officials at the state, federal, and international levels; (3) the protection of poker players and the general public from criminal enterprises masquerading as legitimate gaming platforms; and (4) the pursuit of justice — including criminal prosecution, extradition, and lifetime disqualification from the licensed gaming industry — for every named operator and founder of these illegal syndicates.

The illegal online gambling syndicates documented in this report have, over the course of two or more decades, extracted an estimated $75 billion annually from players in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom — operating without regulatory oversight, without proper licensing, without fair-play guarantees, and without any legal accountability to the millions of players whose funds they hold. This figure, adjusted for inflation and duration of operation, dwarfs the estimated $2–4 billion (inflation-adjusted) generated by the American Mafia's Las Vegas casino skim operations from the 1940s through the mid-1980s — making these digital criminal enterprises the most profitable illegal gambling organizations in recorded history.

Furthermore, these platforms have been documented as vehicles for trickle money laundering operations conducted by terrorist-designated drug cartels — including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and the Clan del Golfo — who utilize these unregulated platforms to move tens of millions of dollars per week using stolen identities and hundreds of simultaneous small-volume accounts.

This report constitutes a formal submission of investigative findings to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and governmental authorities. The Poker Police respectfully requests that the agencies receiving this report treat its contents as actionable intelligence and initiate or escalate criminal and regulatory proceedings accordingly.

This report documents eight (8) illegal online gambling syndicates operating in violation of federal and state laws of the United States, the laws of 27 European Union member states, and the laws of the United Kingdom. Each syndicate has been identified as operating without proper licensing from any recognized gambling authority in the aforementioned jurisdictions. Each syndicate actively markets to and accepts deposits from players located in these restricted jurisdictions. Each syndicate's known operators, founders, and executives are named herein as persons of interest in this investigation.

The applicable primary federal statutes under which these operations constitute criminal violations include, but are not limited to:

• 1.Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 5361–5367
• 2.Wire Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1084
• 3.Wire Fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343
• 4.Money Laundering Control Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956–1957
• 5.Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968
• 6.Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952
• 7.EU Directive 2011/83/EU — Consumer Rights
• 8.EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5 & AMLD6)
• 9.UK Gambling Act 2005, Sections 33 and 36
• 10.UK Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

The pattern of conduct across all eight syndicates is consistent: deliberate selection of offshore jurisdictions to evade U.S., EU, and UK law enforcement; active marketing to players in restricted jurisdictions; use of cryptocurrency or nominal offshore licenses as a false legal shield; continued operation after the illegality of their activity was publicly documented; and systematic recruitment of affiliates and public figures to expand illegal market reach.

The following profiles are presented in standard investigative format. Each profile contains: entity identification, jurisdiction of operation, named operators and principals, documented violations, estimated illegal revenue, and applicable legal statutes.

Investigative analysis has established that many of these illegal online casino websites are being actively used by terrorist-designated Mexican and Colombian drug cartels — including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and the Clan del Golfo — as conduits for trickle money laundering operations.

The methodology is as follows: cartel operatives utilize stolen personally identifiable information to create hundreds of individual player accounts across multiple platforms. Each account moves approximately $10,000 per day — or $50,000 per week — in small, structured increments designed to remain below financial reporting thresholds. Aggregated across hundreds of simultaneous accounts on multiple platforms, this methodology enables the movement of tens of millions of dollars per week through unregulated offshore gambling infrastructure.

Because these platforms operate without regulatory oversight, without Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs subject to independent audit, and with no obligation to report suspicious transactions to any authority in the USA, EU, or UK, they represent ideal vehicles for this class of criminal financial activity. The cryptocurrency trail stops at the platform's deposit address — law enforcement can trace the blockchain to the point of entry, but no further. There is no record inside the platform linking the deposit to the withdrawal, and no authority with jurisdiction to compel one.

The Poker Police refers these findings to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI), the European Banking Authority (EBA), the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), and Interpol's Financial Crimes unit for immediate follow-up investigation and action.

1. 1. IP & Domain Blocking Orders: The Department of Justice, in coordination with state attorneys general and federal courts, should pursue injunctive relief compelling U.S. internet service providers — including Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon — to block access to all domains operated by the syndicates identified in this report. This is the single most immediately actionable enforcement step available and should be the primary recurring function of any dedicated enforcement unit.
2. 2. Federal Indictments & Extradition Proceedings: The named operators and founders identified in Section III of this report should be subject to federal grand jury proceedings. Where operators reside outside U.S. jurisdiction, extradition requests should be filed through applicable international treaties.
3. 3. Payment Processor Investigation & Sanctions: Financial institutions, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges that continue to service transactions for the platforms named in this report should be investigated under 31 U.S.C. § 5363 (UIGEA) and 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (Money Laundering). Civil monetary penalties and criminal referrals are appropriate.
4. 4. International Regulatory Coordination: The EU's coordinated enforcement framework and the UK Gambling Commission should be engaged to pursue parallel enforcement actions. Interpol's Financial Crimes and Cybercrime units should be formally briefed for cross-border coordination.
5. 5. Elimination of Offshore Safe Havens: The U.S. State Department and relevant EU foreign affairs bodies should engage Costa Rica, Panama, and Anjouan (Comoros) diplomatically to demand the cessation of criminal gambling license issuance and the extradition of criminal operators operating from their territories.

The Poker Police respectfully submits the following fiscal and operational recommendation as the single most cost-effective and immediately actionable solution to the illegal offshore online gambling crisis affecting the United States.

We recommend the establishment of a dedicated five-person federal unit — the Illegal Online Gambling Regulation Board (IOGRB) — tasked with one repeating primary function: conduct daily searches on Google and other major search engines using terms such as "online casinos that accept players from the USA" and "online poker sites accepting US players."

The operational logic is straightforward: illegal offshore gambling operators cannot attract American players without publicly advertising that they accept U.S. deposits. Without that marketing, they generate no American revenue. That very advertisement constitutes self-evident, empirical evidence of these websites breaking America's state and federal gambling laws — and is simultaneously the instrument by which they are identified and the evidence by which they are prosecuted. Unless the operator holds an individual state-issued gambling license and is marketing exclusively to that licensed state (for example, New Jersey), the advertising of U.S. player acceptance is a violation of federal law on its face. In practice, operators in this space do not hold state licenses — their business model is illegal gambling, not legal gambling.

Upon identification, the IOGRB submits the site to the appropriate U.S. District Court for an order compelling domestic Internet Service Providers — including Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon — to block the offshore site's IP addresses. Given the overwhelming and self-evident nature of the evidence (the operators' own marketing materials), these orders are expected to proceed as rapid, near-automatic judicial approvals. ISP blocking is the primary and most recurrent function of the IOGRB — it is both technically straightforward and legally well-established under existing federal authority.

Projected Enforcement Timeline:

• Month 1:60 to 70 illegal offshore gambling websites identified and blocked — representing over 50% of all offshore online casinos currently advertising to American players.
• Months 2–6:Sustained enforcement brings blocked sites to over 95% of all U.S.-advertising offshore operators. The IOGRB transitions to routine daily maintenance — monitoring for new entrants and issuing blocking orders as needed.
• Long Term:Once the criminal industry understands that the U.S. market is structurally closed to unregulated offshore operators, the economic incentive to target American players collapses. Illegal offshore online gambling targeting the United States ceases to be a viable business model.

Economic Impact Analysis:

The annual outflow of U.S. player funds to the illegal offshore online gambling industry is estimated at $53.9 billion. This figure represents money that currently exits the American economy entirely — generating no federal or state tax revenue, no domestic employment, no hospitality spending, and no economic circulation within the United States. This money flows exclusively into foreign criminal enterprises, a portion of which has been documented as benefiting terrorist-designated cartels through money laundering operations.

If those funds are retained within the U.S. economy and redirected to licensed domestic gambling operations, the federal government would receive an estimated $21 billion or more in annual tax revenue. When additional economic multiplier effects are considered — including hospitality, tourism, employment, and increased domestic commercial activity — the total benefit to the American economy is substantially greater.

The United States is currently operating under conditions of fiscal imbalance. The continued loss of $53.9 billion annually to offshore criminal enterprises, which vanishes from the US economy, that is a real problem — these enterprises that pay no U.S. taxes, employ no American workers, and have been documented as vehicles for cartel financing — is both an economic hazard and a national security failure. The establishment of the IOGRB represents one of the highest-return, lowest-cost enforcement investments available to the federal government.

The Poker Police has conducted this investigation independently, without government funding, and entirely in the public interest. The findings presented in this report represent thousands of hours of research, cross-referencing, legal analysis, and documentation. We are committed to continuing, with the goal of seeing these websites blocked, and until some of the major named operators in this report face criminal charges, extradition, and prosecution under the laws of the United States, the European Union, or the United Kingdom.

It bears specific emphasis that operators like Tony G (Antanas Guoga) of Coin Poker have attempted to perform aerobics around legality by utilizing Anjouan as a licensing jurisdiction — a territory notorious throughout the global gaming industry for failing to shut down websites that break the very laws under which they are supposedly licensed. People like him pursue the weaker ends of entry into the industry, gravitating toward permissive and non-enforcing authorities that signal less of a genuine pursuit of fair play and rather a goal of quick income over the establishment of a real, legal, internationally compliant business. This pattern of seeking out the lowest-bar licensing jurisdictions is not a legal defense — it is evidence of intent.

To all players: be careful of America's Card Room, Coin Poker, Bovada, Ignition Casino, and other websites that have broken laws — conduct which now establishes them as merchants of a black market whose single goal is to avoid real regulation. One must ask: why would a legitimate business avoid regulation? All of these websites entered the gambling industry from its lowest and most illegitimate corner, operating under a business plan built around evading the oversight of the UK, the USA, and the EU jurisdictions in which they actively operate. That avoidance tells you everything about what they represent. These websites are the last remnants of a dying, primitive era of online gambling — one that is going to end with arrests. If you are a grinder, avoid America's Card Room, Coin Poker, Bovada, Ignition, and every other website documented in this report. The Poker Police has compiled thousands of hours of research to bring you the information necessary to keep you safe as a poker player or general gambler.

The organizations are caught, they need to be blocked, and then legally pursued for running large scale illegal/unregulated gambling. Their magnitude is self-evident, these illegal online gambling syndicates are destructive, they need to be blocked and then those guilty have to be legally pursued. Thank you for taking the time to review this report thoroughly.

For inquiries regarding this report, additional documentation, or secure submission of tips and evidence, contact:
The Poker Police — Intelligence Division
Email: info@thepokerpolice.com
Web: www.thepokerpolice.com