The appeal tabled at the Federal appeal court by the US pro sports betting advocates have hit a hard rock as the jury decided not to the uplifting of the sports betting to be held in New Jersey. Us pro advocates rushed to the Third Court of Appeals in Philadelphia with the aim of having a ruling in their favour but were shocked as the court ruling was backed by 2-1 and in turn giving no chance to the State in trying to circumvent the 1992 Professional & Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA).

This appeal by the New Jersey State has been in progress for nearly a year now. And down the line, the state has faced yet another hit in attempt to give a comprehensive continuity of sport betting in USA. It was the decision of Third Court Judges Marjorie Rendell and Maryanne Trump Barry who made their verdict in favour of US Pro League members and hence giving legalization of sports betting in New Jersey a huge blow.

According to the US Pro League representatives from various leagues such as NFL, MLB and NHL, the verdict undertaken by the Third Court was crucial inthe upholding of the honesty portrayed by various sporting games in the USA.

However, all was not done as the Democratic Senator of New Jersey Ray Lesniak claimed that the representatives of this state will not give up and will continue waging the fight for what they think is their right of eradicating the PASPA verdicts.

Commenting on the issue to US news sources, the senator claimed that there will be three games for the NFL to be staged in Wembley Stadium in London where their fans will bet and watch the games. He claimed that their main agenda would be controlling as well as running betting via fantasy sports.

The president of the American Gaming association Geoff Freeman claimed that he would support Lesniak by claiming that they deserve to take full control of betting as the law is not keen with regulation of illegal betting with current statistics indicating that there are over $140 billion indulged in illegal betting.

From here, New Jersey will head for another appeal at the full court.

After filling an opinion to the EU Court of Justice on the 8^th of July 2014, involving the companionability of the Council of Europe Convention on the Exploitation of Sports Competitions with the EU Treaties, Malta has revisited the claim and has decided to as the court to eradicate it. This comes after Malta claimed that it had submitted this court request so that they can be made understand if “illegal betting” was reliable with the main aims of the Treaty. Malta had argued that the clear definition of “illegal sports betting” was deemed to go as far as conventional capacity and would not indulge in the match fixing brawl.

According to parliamentary secretary for competitiveness José Herrera, the point of view on the Convention of Malta will be open and unmovable. Malta has been on the fore front in the support of this main aim of Convention that will be vital in the prevention of any competitive sport exploitation. Furthermore Malta is currently undertaking an implementation that will see the execution of harsh rules that would eradicate fraud as well as sports exploitation.

Herrera continued to note that it has been of great concern for Malta to have it understand the clear elaboration of ‘illegal sports betting” which it believes that it has been seen to surpass the vastness of the Convention but it is not in any way involved in the eradication of match fixing. This prompted Malta to table in several proposals that would see the Conventional changed in some clauses.

However, the committee in charge rejected these schemes and Malta opted to disband and reject the implementation of the Convention. This was followed by the refusal of putting a signature on the initiation of the Convention in September 2014.

He concluded by saying that the current affairs which were followed by a deeper go through of the legislative proposal, Malta decided to believe that there will be other open chances that would be more readily available. As per now, Malta has decided to drop the request and indulge in internal state affairs which would be achieved via a comprehensive dialogue with the European top level which it believed would never renounce its rights as well as its privileges.

Three bookies banks accounts where frozen in Ahmedabad by the Ahmedabad Unit of Enforcement Directorate. This happened in the past week after the bookies who own these bank accounts where involved in a cricket betting scandal. They are said to be involved in the international cricket betting racket that is termed as the Rs 2,600 crore.

The crackdown began in major Indian towns and started from Mumbai, Bhopal, Delhi and Indore where the officials had some banks accounts related to the scandal shut down and frozen. Some of the names tied to the frozen accounts include Ashish Grover, Paresh Bhatia and Aman Kapur. They were arrested from different towns where Grover was arrested from Delhi alongside Kapur while in Mumbai the officials and authorities made the arrest of Bhatia. All this events and arrests happened on Wednesday. The bank accounts where being frozen and not only those that are tied to the public sector but also those that are on the private sector as well.

All the three bookies that where tied to this cricket betting scandal where on Monday sent into Judicial custody by the PMLA a special court that is directed to dealing to such and related cases. There are also other pending cases as Sanjay Agarwal from Nagpur who is better known as Chhotu Nagpur and Muneer who is from Mumbai received summons for them to appear before the ED on Monday but of which both of them turn down this down.

Since the start of the crackdown a total of ten bookies have been arrested pertaining the case that was unveiled by ED Ahmedabad. The case started in March during the cricket world cup. The ED Ahmedabad has made progress in unveiling the bookies tied to this case and so far they have been able to recover eight mobile phones, two laptops, Rs 60 lakh in cashand also documents in Priyadarshini Vihar in Delhi the residence of Kapur. From Grover’s residence, five mobile phones where recovered in Prashant Vihar. This shows a great effort by the authorities to bring down such cases.

According to an Australian newspaper, “The Australian” Ladbrokes and bet35 feature that is called the ‘click call’ is under investigation. The investigation is being carried by the International Police commonly known as the Interpol. This features has seemingly draw controversies across the betting arena.

The case was referred to the International Police by the Australian Federal Police who had been given the directive to carry out the investigation on the bookmakers by the Australian Communication and Media Authority that is abbreviated as (ACMA). The Australian Federal Police have decided to refer the case to the Interpol as the websites in Australia were apparently all operated remotely by the bookmakers. The Police are now investigating another bookmaker William Hill whose website was operated locally unlike the other betting service providers.

The Authorities in Australia have investigations underway on claims that this bookmakers that are of British origin are acting in violation as they had breached the laws on the Gambling Act of 2001. This law prohibits the betting on five platform although it allows the betting on a by use of phone for betting. The feature was first launched by Ladbrokes Australia and William Hill in the month of April. Since its establishment it has brought controversy mirroring other live betting functions as it enables customers to be able to connect to team markets all through a microphone.

Other bookmakers in the UK have said that the mechanism they use is under the Gambling Act Provision of 2001, where the wagers by the customers are only processed if the customer approves of the selections they have made. ACMA responded to this by posting new guideline that the call feature did not involve other service providers that has customers using the normal telephone services which is a requirement according to the act.

In this month the ACMA proceeded to pass the investigation to the Federal Police with claims that it was a breach to the laws of the nation and they were the right force to handle this as the communication agency could not advise on the matter. With this the UK bookmaker will therefore be forced to drop the feature that it offers to its customers until the matter has been sorted out.

Soon sport betting will be considered a ‘game skill’ if it is legalized in the United States. ESPN, a US sport network has revealed that the NFL and the Department of Justice, through legal documents that they are considerations to make sport betting a ‘game of skill’. The definition from both these two parties may be of importance in giving the distinction that would help determine whether sport betting will be made legal in the United States.

This document came into light when it was discovered by the biggest sports broadcaster, ESPN, as they were searching through public records. This game changing definition was outlined by the lawyers that stood in for NFL alongside Loretta Lynch who is a US Attorney General.

The earlier definition that determine the ‘Games of Skill’ is according to 2006 UIGEA law. This has been used for those who oppose sport betting on the grounds that despite the fact that some skill may be involved. When it comes to sport betting just like any betting activity the element of chance plays a greater role in determining and influencing the outcome.

Attorney General Lynch in 2013 noted that Sport betting involves some skill by the bettors but despite this Sport bettor would decide to exploit on the odds that would not reflect necessarily reflect on the outcomes of the games. This superior knowledge would effect on the mind set of those wagering and influence on the decisions they would make on the bets.

US betting advocates will be surprised by the news that ESPN have disclosed. This is because the NFL have always against sport betting being legalized. They were the first to be against sport betting being legalized in the State of New Jersey for the whole of 2014. Roger Goodell told the media in April that the NFL where still opposing the sport betting which where contrary to the words of Adam Silver who urged the senate to set up a legal framework that will allow and legalize sport betting.