{"id":395,"date":"2026-10-01T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powercraft.site\/police-storm-offices-of-mga-licensed-german-sports-betting-operator-tipster\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:25:09","slug":"police-storm-offices-of-mga-licensed-german-sports-betting-operator-tipster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Police storm offices of MGA-licensed German sports betting operator Tipster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>German authorities have carried out a massive raid against MGA-licensed sports betting operator Tipster, German newspaper <em>Bild<\/em> has reported.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Over 1,000 officers from the North Rhine-Westphalia riot police and criminal investigation department searched more than 100 locations simultaneously in several German cities, as well as in Malta and Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>                      According to <em>Bild<\/em>, the investigation is related to suspicions of illegal gambling and the formation of a criminal organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The police are searching for evidence and assets related to the investigation, with six suspects in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, all male and aged between 34 and 60, are part of the company\u2019s management team.<\/p>\n<p>According to chief inspector Markus Niesczery, the six main suspects were arrested in the German cities Cologne and Br\u00fchl.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the police officers, prosecutors from the Central Office for Organised Crime, customs officials, and financial investigators from North Rhine-Westphalia are also involved in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The police searched the company\u2019s headquarters in Cologne, where they arrested one suspect and confiscated servers located in a secured vault.<\/p>\n<p>The operation lasted several hours, during which authorities attempted to gain access to the servers, <em>Bild<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tipster was founded in 2010 and is licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) and is also on the whitelist of Germany\u2019s GGL.<\/p>\n<p><em>iGaming NEXT<\/em> has reached out to both regulators for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing and <em>Bild<\/em> reports the authorities have not yet provided any further details regarding the specific allegations against the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"btn__text\"><\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"btn__icon icon icon--share\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German authorities have carried out a massive raid against MGA-licensed sports betting operator Tipster, German newspaper Bild has reported. Over 1,000 officers from the North Rhine-Westphalia riot police and criminal investigation department searched more than 100 locations simultaneously in several German cities, as well as in Malta and Croatia. According to Bild, the investigation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[50,51,52,53,54,12,55],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","category-skillraid","tag-allegations","tag-germany","tag-ggl","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-mga","tag-sports-betting","tag-tipster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skillraid.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}