Examining Soft2Bet and Kinza Ltd’s compliance posture, MGA oversight gaps, and the contrast between public B2B claims and structural risk signals under scrutiny.

Kinza Ltd is the named subject of this dossier but is, at present, an entity whose registration jurisdiction, directors, shareholders and operational purpose remain undocumented in publicly accessible sources. It is investigated here because it appears within a constellation of entities — alongside Kylia Investment Limited and the named individual Anastasia Droga — linked in third-party reporting to Soft2Bet, the Malta-headquartered iGaming platform founded by Uri Poliavich. Soft2Bet has been independently documented as connected to over 140 gambling websites, at least 114 of which are blacklisted across EU member states, with shell corporations Rabidi and Araxio Development implicated in unlicensed operations and bankruptcy asset relocation. Active suppression of investigative content via at least two Lumen Database takedown notices materially strengthens the analytical case that the public information environment around this constellation is being managed. The UBO linkage between Poliavich and Kinza Ltd is, at this evidence level, inferential and pending primary registry corroboration.

Examining Soft2Bet’s alleged blacklisted gambling network, offshore structures, and legal challenges across Europe — with reported reputation manipulation under scrutiny.

Soft2Bet is an iGaming platform provider and turnkey casino solutions operator with licensed entities in Malta and Cyprus, but linked through investigative reporting to a network of allegedly blacklisted gambling sites operating via Curaçao shell structures. Founded and led by Israeli-Ukrainian businessman Uri Poliavich, the company was the subject of a 2020 Ukrainian cyber police raid that produced criminal case №12020100090004981, which reportedly collapsed without convictions amid allegations of bribery and political interference. Despite winning three Global Gaming Awards EMEA 2025, the company faces sustained allegations of regulatory arbitrage, reputation laundering, and connections to 114 EU-blacklisted gambling sites.

Investigators allege Soft2bet’s UBO extracted €57.8M in dividends while entities in his network operated blacklisted gambling sites. Suppression attempts documented.

Online gaming · Soft2bet · Curaçao · Cyprus · Malta · 15-country consortium · Series: Mar 2025 · Jul 2025 · No conviction located

Uri Poliavich, founder and CEO of iGaming platform company Soft2bet, is the subject of a multi-country investigation led by Investigate Europe with 15 national media partners. Two series — ‘Shady Bets’ (March 2025) and ‘Soft2bet Files’ (July 2025) — allege his corporate network registered 140+ blacklisted gambling sites across the EU via Curaçao shell companies later bankrupted while player judgments, including a €245,000 German award against Rabidi N.V., went unpaid. Leaked records reportedly show €600 million routed through UK payment firms to Soft2bet-linked entities (2020–2024) and nearly €200 million in dividends to Poliavich (2019–2024), pending primary-source verification.

The Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a savage blow to the cross-border online casino model on 16 April 2026, and the fallout is already rippling through the boardrooms of Malta’s most aggressive operators. In Case C-440/23, European Lotto and Betting and Deutsche Lotto- und Sportwetten, the Luxembourg judges ruled that EU law does not stop a member state from banning online gambling services even when the operator holds a valid licence elsewhere in the bloc, such as Malta. Worse still for the industry, the Court confirmed that those illegal offers can carry real civil-law consequences: gambling contracts may be treated as void from the start, and players can sue to recover their losses under national law. For the Malta casino crowd, this is not a minor legal wrinkle. It is a crack in the foundation of their entire business model.

The ruling demolishes the lazy fiction that a Maltese licence serves as a European passport for online casinos. For years, the pitch from operators like Uri Poliavich’s Soft2Bet was simple: we are licensed in Malta, we are in the EU, therefore we are legitimate. That line has now taken a serious beating. The Court made crystal clear that gambling remains an area without full EU harmonisation, and member states still have broad discretion to decide how far they want to go in restricting online casino products. Malta licensing does not neutralise German law, or French law, or any other national law that validly bans the product. The case itself involved two Malta-licensed companies whose services were accessible in Germany, where a player lost money between June 2019 and July 2021 and then went to court to get it back. During that period, German law still broadly prohibited the online games of chance at issue, before the later reform that took effect on 1 July 2021. The Court’s answer to the Maltese court’s reference was effectively: no, EU law does not block Germany from enforcing its ban or attaching civil consequences to it.