The central bank warned of the dangers of online betting

According to the monetary financial news quoted by IRIB, Mehran Moharramian, Deputy Technology Minister of the Central Bank of dealing with gambling activities and cyber betting in 6 areas of law enforcement and security, cultural and social, information and communication technology, economic, legal and judicial and Banking services and payment were announced and said: “The central bank has made proposals to the responsible institutions to finally increase the cost of this criminal behavior for the perpetrators and perpetrators.”

Mehran Moharramian divided the main players in gambling and cyber betting into 4 layers: users, sponsors of financial arteries, sponsors of businesses and branches, and added: in the first layer, there are gamblers and renters of banking and payment instruments, and card renters and unauthorized payment service providers. Are also located in the layer of financial arteries.

According to Muharramians, in the business backing layer of these web developers are advertisers and webmasters who facilitate this criminal act so that the branches ultimately benefit as the main beneficiaries.

The central bank official mentioned confronting casino owners, confronting gamblers, finding major branches and finally taking a series of preventive measures to trap social media and cyberspace users as the topic of combating these activities and said: “Stop some activities in the category of payments.” We have taken Rials for gambling and betting activities, and the only way left to commit this criminal act is to abuse the card-to-card method, which, according to our plans, will soon be largely blocked.

Referring to the coordination between the judiciary, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the FATA police in cooperation with the banking network and electronic payments, the Central Bank’s Deputy Minister of Technology stated: Referral of trustees identified in different levels of gambling is identification and referral of gambling and betting branches, as well as handling of cases referred by institutions.

Moharramian also announced the blocking of gambling sites as well as payment service providers with the help of the Attorney General’s Office and added: Destination account security and transaction security level are intelligently identified.

He continued: “In the second stage, cyber gamblers will be leveled based on indicators such as the total amount of deposits to casinos, the number of transactions deposited in casinos and the number of distinct cards of the destination casino to work with the Attorney General on how to act on each level of cyber gamblers.” Action.

The official said: “In the next layer, with the coordination of judicial authorities in the form of text messages and… to people with suspected cyber gambling activities, warnings and warnings are under consideration and arrangements are underway to cite criminal and suspicious behaviors in the results of customer validation.” .

According to Moharramian, finding the intersection of gambling and cyber betting branches with currency disrupting branches, which is considered an example of organized crime, as well as close cooperation between Kashif Company and the Central Bank with the Deputy Minister of Cyberspace and the District 38 Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office (Security Crimes) Ethical) is done in the same direction to prosecute the branches.

The Deputy Governor of New Technologies of the Central Bank said: “Intelligent and data-driven monitoring of the performance of payment service providers in the field of gambling and cyber betting, along with other measures as a complement to methods to combat this criminal act is on the current agenda.”