The high stakes gambling platform, which shut down in August, has become the subject of Democracy for Sale research around its apparent owner.
Hon Kong Yong, a Malaysia-based accountant, submitted a 2020 sale document for a £3.75m Kensington property as proof of wealth, as well as net worth of £8m despite only being paid £40,000 annually.
This information was revealed after Lilith Wittman hacked into the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s (CGA) systems last month, revealing thousands of documents detailing ownership and business plans of Curaçao-licensed online gambling firms.
Democracy for Sale passed this information onto national UK media outlet The Times, who dug further into the matter by contacting the supposed sellers of this property – a retired French couple who confirmed that they had never met, or even heard of Yong.
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