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Gambling Commission widens illegal gambling crackdown beyond website takedowns
The Great Britain regulator announced the change during the first Illegal Gambling Awareness Week, which ran from November 9 to 13.
Great Britain’s Gambling Commission will target the money, assets and business models behind illegal gambling operators, widening its enforcement work beyond taking down unlicensed websites.
The regulator confirmed the change at the start of the first Illegal Gambling Awareness Week, which ran from November 9 to 13, Yogonet International reported.
The Daily iGaming reported on its Telegram channel that the commission referred 397,527 URLs to search engines in 2025/26, and 266,667 were removed. The channel said 586 illegal sites were still accessible in September 2026.
The channel also reported that a commission survey found 0.6% of respondents had used an illegal gambling site in the past four weeks.
The available reports did not specify how the commission would target operators’ funds and assets.