Quote from: Fortify on July 16, 2025, 07:25:28 PM

What has any of what you said got to do with tinfoil? It's how the capitalism system works. Clubs need money to buy the best players which allows them to reach #1, casinos make a lot of money which requires a constant influx of new customers and football fans make ideal candidates because they love to spend money on such things. It's rather simply really and it should be no surprise that private equity funds like Blackstone have come to the same conclusion.

You missed the part of that casino having the brother of the EC president as CEO. Wink

There goes the tinfoil option!

Quote from: mikel_012 on July 16, 2025, 10:28:21 PM

You haven't seen anything.

In Brazil we had a CPI about the gambling websites. A CPI is a comission ran by senators and deputies to investigate a matter in our country. For the gambling CPI, they were investigation the influencers promoting casinos online to poor people. And guess who was in this CPI about casino websitess? Ciro Nogueira, a Senator for Piauí. He is also the president of the powerful political party PP.

He was seen taking flights on the private jet of the owner of a big casino website in Brazil. And the owner of this casino bought a huge real estate from Ciro Nogueira. Connections everywhere. Cheesy

I still believe that your case is just bribery.
Here it is not even bribery anymore; the guy is employed there, you can't accuse him of anything, but he is still a relative of one of the most influential persons in the EU. Again, the whole thing is ridiculous, a casino with Serbian owners winning the biggest market share in Romania, backed by a US fund, has the brother of the EC on its board. If it had been all German or French, for example, it would have been a little less shocking.