Inside Russia's creepy sport farms
Football doesn’t know how deep its gambling addiction goes
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Hidden throughout eastern Europe is a network of "sports-betting farms", where minimum wage workers play an endless succession of games -- soccer, basketball, table-tennis, even "bench-soccer" for people to bet on through the site 1xBet. These farms are controversial and there are arrest warrants out for their founders -- yet some of the world's biggest football clubs count 1xBet as a major sponsor. This episode is a collaboration with the award-winning investigative team, Bellingcat.
Special thanks to:
Bellingcat and its Community: Ross Higgins, Beau Donelly, Charley Maher, Josimar
Ismail Vali, Founder & CEO of YieldSec
CORRECTION:
6:24 Kiev should be Kyiv on this map.
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