{"id":13325,"date":"2025-10-17T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/swiss-gambling-watchdog-files-criminal-complaint-against-fifa-platform\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:19","slug":"swiss-gambling-watchdog-files-criminal-complaint-against-fifa-platform","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/swiss-gambling-watchdog-files-criminal-complaint-against-fifa-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss gambling watchdog files criminal complaint against FIFA platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The Swiss Gambling Supervisory Authority on Friday filed a criminal complaint against football&#8217;s world governing body, Switzerland-based FIFA, over an online platform for trading digital football collectibles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The platform encourages users to collect and trade blockchain-based non-fungible tokens, or NFT, in return for special access to buy FIFA World Cup tickets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;During the investigation, suspicions were confirmed that collect.fifa.com offers gambling services that are not licensed in Switzerland and are therefore illegal,&#8221; the regulator said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13326,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13325","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The platform encourages users to collect and trade blockchain-based non-fungible tokens, or NFT, in return for special access to buy FIFA World Cup tickets.||The platform encourages users to collect and trade blockchain-based non-fungible tokens, or NFT, in return for special access to buy FIFA World Cup tickets.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18500,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13325\/revisions\/18500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}