Back in January, Gambling Minister Baroness Twycross made a landmark announcement that the government has set up a specialised unit to wage war on the black market in the UK. Not much else was known about the operations of this taskforce, until now.
Three key objectives
Those assigned to the taskforce will work towards lessening the influence of illegal gambling by tackling three distinctive objectives – preventing payments from and to black market operators, taking down offshore online marketing, and enhancing cross-agency enforcement to crack down on illegal remote and land-based gambling.
All three objectives will be handled by a separate Taskforce sub-group, which will assess the progress made and propose follow-up amendments.
Enforcement powers still on the cards
The DCMS added that from the outset, the Taskforce and..