Illegal gambling rings in Bangladesh are increasingly exploiting mobile wallet services like bKash, Nagad, and Rocket to move funds anonymously. With the growing popularity of cashless transactions, operators of betting sites and Telegram gambling groups have begun using these platforms to collect deposits and pay out winnings.
Many of these transactions are masked as utility payments or personal transfers, making them difficult for authorities to detect. Law enforcement has flagged several such cases, urging fintech companies to implement advanced fraud detection mechanisms.
Calls are growing for coordinated efforts between financial regulators and digital service providers to trace and block gambling-related transactions before addiction and fraud spiral further.
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