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British Entrepreneurs Fined £265K For Illegal Betting Operation

Two British entrepreneurs have been fined a total of £265,000 by the UK Gambling Commission after pleading guilty to offenses under the Gambling Act of 2005.

Dylan Rigby and Craig Douglas, both from Essex, admitted to being company directors of Game Gold Tradings Limited, owner and advertiser of FutGalaxy.com, which was proven to be an unlicensed gambling website.

Douglas, known as “NepentheZ” on YouTube where his channel has more than 1.45 million subscribers, starred in a video promoting the FutGalaxy website, which features a number of ways visitors can gamble with FIFA coins for the popular video game FIFA 17.