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Uri Poliavich
Online gaming · Soft2bet · Curaçao · Cyprus · Malta · 15-country consortium · Series: Mar 2025 · Jul 2026 · 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 2026) — 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.
No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been located. Soft2bet denies wrongdoing, citing full adherence to applicable laws and licensing conditions; Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions. A campaign of 50+ fraudulent DMCA notices targeting the journalism is confirmed by the outlets, but its authorship remains unattributed.
600
MILLION
Reported flows from blacklisted casinos via UK payment firms to Soft2bet-linked entitiesREPORTED
The July 2026 'Soft2bet Files', a 15-outlet consortium series led by Investigate Europe, reports leaked payment records showing €600 million flowing from blacklisted casinos through FCA-regulated UK firms My EU Pay and Unlimit to Soft2bet-linked entities (2020–2024), with Poliavich reportedly receiving nearly €200 million in dividends (2019–2024). These figures rest on leaked records cited by the consortium, pending primary-source verification.
Earlier 'Shady Bets' reporting alleged 114+ blacklisted casinos registered via Curaçao entities, and a German court award of €245,000 against Rabidi N.V. reported unpaid after the entity's bankruptcy; these findings attach to entities, not to Poliavich personally.
No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Soft2bet denies wrongdoing, citing full adherence to applicable laws and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where it is authorised; Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions.
All figures derive from consortium reporting on leaked records; allegations remain unadjudicated, and no personal conviction, arrest, or sanctions against Poliavich are confirmed.
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The eight modules that carry this dossier — summary, chronology, network, infrastructure, evidence, preservation, and the visual record — surfaced ahead of the full analytical run. Every module here resolves to the Source Index like every other section.
PROXIMITY-RISK PROFILE · ONLINE GAMING
§ 01
Uri Poliavich — Founder and CEO of Soft2bet
Founder, CEO, and reported UBO of iGaming platform company Soft2bet; subject of an active multi-country investigative journalism series alleging entity-level operation of blacklisted gambling sites. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions located on the reviewed record.
Uri Poliavich is the founder, chief executive, and reported ultimate beneficial owner of Soft2bet, an online gaming platform and operator group with corporate footprints reported across Curaçao, Cyprus, Malta, the UAE, Ireland, and other jurisdictions. This file is a proximity-risk profile: the reviewed record contains no personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich, and no matter has been located in which he is a defendant or accused party. His exposure is derivative, arising from investigative reporting on entities within the corporate network he founded and leads.1,5,CL-10
The verified/reported separation is central to this dossier. What is established at the highest confidence available is the existence and content of the journalism itself: two cross-border series led by Investigate Europe with 15 national media partners — 'Shady Bets' (March 2025) and the 'Soft2bet Files' (July 2026). What those series assert remains reported or alleged, not adjudicated. The March 2025 reporting states that Poliavich's corporate network registered 114+ blacklisted casinos, including Wazamba via Curaçao-registered Rabidi N.V., and that a German court ruled Rabidi owed a player €245,000 — a judgment reportedly unpaid after Rabidi's Curaçao bankruptcy. Both the judgment and a reported €5 million Spanish regulatory fine attach to Rabidi as an entity, not to Poliavich personally.5,CL-05,CL-06,CL-07
The July 2026 'Soft2bet Files' series cites leaked payment records reportedly showing €600 million flowing from blacklisted casinos through FCA-regulated UK payment firms My EU Pay and Unlimit to Soft2bet-linked entities (2020–2024), nearly €200 million in dividends reportedly received by Poliavich (2019–2024), and assets reportedly placed in Bahamian trusts. These figures derive from leaked records cited by the consortium and are not independently verified primary documents. The Irish Times separately reports that Irish authorities licensed six Soft2bet-connected companies since 2022. The consortium characterises Malta's Bill 55 and the Curaçao bankruptcies as structural mechanisms shielding entities from judgments; their framing as deliberate evasion is an allegation.1,2,CL-01,CL-02,CL-09
Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing, stating: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions. Separately, Investigate Europe and EUobserver document 50+ fraudulent DMCA takedown notices filed against the 'Shady Bets' articles, with claimants impersonating Investigate Europe to de-index partner publications; the copyright claims are disproven, but authorship of the campaign is unestablished and is not attributed to Poliavich or Soft2bet.R1,3,4,CL-03,CL-04,CL-11
Confidence for this section is capped at medium-high: all load-bearing wrongdoing material is journalistic reporting (T1 outlets, but no primary court, registry, or regulatory documents in the file). The €600M and ~€200M figures must remain in the reported register pending primary-source verification. The entity-level German judgment and Spanish fine cannot be converted into personal liability. Denial DEN-01 must remain adjacent to any wrongdoing allegation in downstream sections.1,2,5,R1,CL-01,CL-05,CL-10
HIGH LEGAL CAUTION
All allegations of operating blacklisted sites, strategic bankruptcy, and improper payment flows derive from investigative journalism and are unadjudicated against Poliavich personally. Absence of a record is reported as no record located, never as clearance.
DMCA ATTRIBUTION
The 50+ DMCA notices are confirmed fraudulent by the targeted outlets, but the filers' identities are unestablished. The campaign must not be ascribed to Poliavich or Soft2bet as fact.
Source basis: Based on T1 consortium reporting (Investigate Europe, Irish Times, Amphora Media, EUobserver) from the March 2025 'Shady Bets' and July 2026 'Soft2bet Files' series, plus Soft2bet's subject-response record. No primary court, bankruptcy, registry, or regulatory documents were available in the evidence set.
Case Timeline: Investigative Reporting on the Soft2bet Network, 2019–2026
Evidence-dated reconstruction of consortium reporting on Uri Poliavich and Soft2bet-linked entities, from reported dividend and payment-flow periods through the March 2025 'Shady Bets' and July 2026 'Soft2bet Files' series. All wrongdoing items are journalistic allegations; no personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed.
The timeline is anchored in two investigative waves (Mar 2025; Jul 2026) plus a confirmed press-suppression episode (Jun 2025) whose authorship is unattributed. Financial figures derive from leaked records cited by the consortium and are not independently verified primary documents. Entity-level actions (Rabidi judgment, Spanish fine) do not attach to Poliavich personally. Two registry events (2023 profit/dividend figures; 2024 industry award) rest on unsourced or tip-level material and are excluded from the rendered rows.
UNADJUDICATED ALLEGATIONS
All allegations of blacklisted-site operation, strategic bankruptcy, and improper payment flows derive from investigative journalism and remain unadjudicated against Poliavich personally. The German judgment and Spanish fine attach to Rabidi N.V. as an entity. Absence of a record is not clearance.
DENIAL CARRIED
Soft2bet denies wrongdoing: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions.
DMCA ATTRIBUTION
The fraudulent DMCA notices are confirmed as fraudulent by the targeted outlets, but the filers' identities are unestablished. The campaign must not be attributed to Poliavich or Soft2bet as fact.
Source basis: Rows draw on T1 consortium reporting: Investigate Europe 'Soft2bet Files' (1), Irish Times (2), Investigate Europe and EUobserver on the DMCA campaign (3, 4), Amphora Media / Investigate Europe 'Shady Bets' (5), and the subject-response record (R1). Court and regulatory items are cited via press, not primary documents.
FEATURED · RELATIONSHIP GRAPH
§ 03
Network Intelligence
Entities and documented relationships around the subject. Node colour encodes entity class; verified relationships render solid, reported relationships lighter, alleged relationships dashed.
EVIDENCE LEDGER
§ 05
Registry of Load-Bearing Claims
Eleven registered claims underpin this dossier. All wrongdoing allegations derive from investigative journalism (Investigate Europe consortium, 2025–2026) and remain unadjudicated against Uri Poliavich personally; entity-level findings attach to Rabidi N.V., not the subject.
The registry rests entirely on T1 investigative journalism; no claim exceeds its strongest source class. Entity-level facts (the German judgment against Rabidi N.V., the Spanish €5 million fine) do not translate into personal findings against Poliavich. Challenge counts reflect Soft2bet's standing denial (DEN-01) — 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate' — which answers CL-01, CL-02, CL-05, CL-07 and CL-09. Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions. CL-11's challenges reflect the two outlet reports disproving the DMCA copyright assertions; the campaign's authorship must not be ascribed to Poliavich or Soft2bet.1,2,3,4,5,R1,CL-01,CL-02,CL-05,CL-07,CL-09,CL-11
Confidence is capped at the reported class for all financial aggregates: the €600 million payment flows and ~€200 million dividends derive from leaked records cited by the consortium, pending primary-source verification. CL-06, CL-07 and CL-09 carry medium confidence because the underlying court and legislative records were cited via press, not obtained directly. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed (CL-10).
Uri Poliavich: Founder, CEO and UBO of Soft2bet — Reported Entity Perimeter
Who Uri Poliavich is on the reviewed record, and the corporate perimeter reported around him by the Investigate Europe consortium. All perimeter links are reported, not adjudicated; no personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed.
Uri Poliavich is identified across consortium reporting as the founder, chief executive, and ultimate beneficial owner of Soft2bet, an iGaming platform company. His reported footprint spans Curaçao, Cyprus, Malta, the UAE, Ireland, and other jurisdictions, and he is reported to have relocated to a residence near New York, with assets reportedly placed in Bahamian trusts. The perimeter below is assembled from investigative reporting citing corporate filings and leaked records; it describes reported connections, not findings of wrongdoing. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing, stating: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions.
Reporting names two associates in the corporate perimeter. Denys Butko, a Ukrainian national, reportedly managed Rabidi N.V.; his broader network role is not established. Anastasia Droga reportedly oversees 15 firms including Poliavich Holding Limited and Araxio Development; her governance role is not fully mapped. Allegations concerning entities they administered must not be extended to them, or from them to Poliavich, as personal findings. The subject's wife, Yael, appears on the record solely as co-founder of the Yael Foundation, a philanthropic vehicle; no adverse finding is recorded against her, and she is named only in that registry-recorded capacity.1,5,CL-05,CL-10
The entire perimeter rests on T1 investigative journalism citing corporate filings and leaked records, not on primary registry documents reviewed directly. Every link is therefore carried at the reported register. Structural features — Curaçao vehicles, Cyprus holdings, Bahamian trusts — are recorded as reported architecture, not as evidence of concealment. Gaps remain open on Pgway ownership, Interpava's mechanism, GENETIX-FZCO's function, the unnamed Cyprus entities behind Maltix, and the Bahamian trust structures.1,5,CL-01,CL-05
PROXIMITY, NOT CULPABILITY
This is a proximity-risk profile. Entity-level matters — the German judgment against Rabidi N.V. and the Spanish regulatory fine — attach to entities, not to Poliavich individually. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed; absence of a record is not clearance.
DENIAL CARRIED
Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions.
Source basis: Identity and perimeter drawn from the Investigate Europe 'Soft2bet Files' (July 2026), the Irish Times consortium reporting, and the March 2025 'Shady Bets' investigation by Amphora Media / Investigate Europe, with Soft2bet's subject-response record carried adjacent to allegations. All sources are journalistic (reported class); no primary registry documents were independently reviewed.
Judicial Findings vs. Journalistic Allegations
Separation of what is established on the reviewed record from what remains alleged by the Investigate Europe consortium. No court has adjudicated any claim against Uri Poliavich personally.
This section applies the procedural distinction between findings and allegations across the jurisdictions in scope (Germany, Spain, Curaçao, Malta, Ireland, UK). A court finding binds only the party adjudicated; here, the sole court ruling on record attaches to Rabidi N.V. as an entity, not to Poliavich as an individual. All other adverse material derives from investigative journalism — the March 2025 'Shady Bets' and July 2026 'Soft2bet Files' series — and remains unadjudicated. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing (DEN-01); Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions
Composite Risk Grade — Proximity Exposure, Unadjudicated
Six-dimension composite grading of Uri Poliavich's risk profile. Exposure is derivative through Soft2bet-linked entities and rests on consortium reporting; no personal conviction, arrest, or sanctions confirmed. All pattern-driven subscores are capped at the reported evidence class.
Grade C reflects a proximity-risk profile: the adverse pattern is dense, current, and multi-jurisdictional, but every load-bearing element is journalist-reported and unadjudicated against the subject personally. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. The capping rule was applied to Legal, AML, Cross-border, and Disclosure subscores because the underlying patterns are reported, not verified; without it, AML and Legal would score materially higher. The DMCA campaign (CL-11) is confirmed fraudulent by the targeted outlets but unattributed — it is excluded from the subject's scoring and appears only as a disproven-claim context factor. Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing, stating operations adhere to all applicable laws and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where authorised (DEN-01)
Risk Matrix — Derivative Exposure Placement
Placement reflects proximity risk only: all wrongdoing allegations derive from investigative journalism and attach to network entities, not to Poliavich personally. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Soft2bet denies all wrongdoing.
Ownership allegations here are derivative: the German judgment and Spanish fine attach to Rabidi N.V. as an entity, not to Poliavich personally, and no personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Soft2bet denies wrongdoing, stating its operations adhere to all applicable laws and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where it is authorised to operate; Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions. Pgway is reported as owned by an unnamed associate — it must not be treated as a Poliavich holding. The Bahamian trust structures reportedly holding assets remain unstructured on the record.
Legal Status: No Personal Proceedings Located
Procedural position of Uri Poliavich as an individual, distinguished from entity-level matters attaching to related companies within the Soft2bet-linked network.
STATUS
No personal proceedings located
Reviewed record shows no criminal charge, civil suit, or regulatory action naming Poliavich personally. Exposure is derivative, arising from investigative reporting on related entities.
PROCEEDINGS
Entity-level only (reported)
A German court reportedly ruled Rabidi N.V. owed a player €245,000, unpaid after Curaçao bankruptcy; Spain reportedly fined Rabidi €5 million. Both attach to the entity, not to Poliavich.
CONVICTION
None located
No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed. Presumption of innocence applies; absence of a record is not clearance.
APPEALS
Not applicable / unknown
No appellate posture exists for the subject personally. Any appeal status of the Rabidi N.V. judgment or the Spanish fine is not publicly verifiable on the reviewed record.
The subject's procedural position is defined by what the record does not contain. Two investigative series ('Shady Bets', Mar 2025; 'Soft2bet Files', Jul 2026) allege operation of blacklisted gambling sites, strategic bankruptcies defeating player judgments, and €600 million in reported payment flows through UK payment firms — all unadjudicated journalistic allegations, not court findings against Poliavich. The German judgment and Spanish fine are entity-level matters against Rabidi N.V. and must not be read as personal liability. Soft2bet denies wrongdoing: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions. The 50+ DMCA notices against the reporting are confirmed fraudulent by the targeted outlets, but authorship is unattributed and creates no procedural exposure for the subject on this record
Digital Footprint: Domains, Gateways, and Search-Index Interference
Reported digital infrastructure linked to the Soft2bet network — blacklisted casino domains, payment gateways, and a documented campaign of fraudulent DMCA notices targeting search indexing of the investigative reporting. No passive-DNS or primary registrar records were available for review.
Public Record Analysis: Archived Placements and Claim Checks
Audit of the archived public record on Uri Poliavich: two consortium investigative series (March 2025; July 2026), a confirmed-fraudulent DMCA de-indexing campaign against that reporting, and the subject-response record. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanctions against Poliavich have been confirmed on the reviewed record.
Editorial Conclusion: Derivative Exposure, Unadjudicated Record
On the reviewed record, Uri Poliavich carries high derivative exposure through entities under sustained consortium investigation, but no personal adverse finding. Every wrongdoing allegation remains unadjudicated against him personally.
The verified record establishes one thing with clarity: Uri Poliavich, founder and CEO of Soft2bet, is the central figure in an active, accelerating multi-country investigation led by Investigate Europe with 15 national media partners across two series — 'Shady Bets' (March 2025) and the 'Soft2bet Files' (July 2026). The consortium's core allegations — 140+ blacklisted gambling sites registered through Curaçao entities Rabidi N.V. and Araxio Development N.V., reported €600 million payment flows through FCA-regulated UK firms, and nearly €200 million in reported dividends — rest on leaked records cited by the consortium and remain journalistic findings pending primary-source verification.1,2,5,CL-01,CL-02,CL-05
Equally clear is what the record does not contain. No personal criminal conviction, arrest, or named sanction against Poliavich has been located. The German court judgment of €245,000 and the Spanish regulatory fine attach to Rabidi N.V. as an entity, not to Poliavich as an individual; he is not a defendant or accused party in any matter on the reviewed record. Soft2bet denies wrongdoing, stating: 'Our operations are conducted in full adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and licensing conditions in every jurisdiction where we are authorised to operate.' Poliavich did not personally respond to reporters' questions.5,R1,CL-05,CL-06,CL-10
The desk conclusion is therefore one of derivative exposure, not adverse finding. Exposure could move in either direction: regulatory action, litigation, or attribution of the fraudulent DMCA campaign — currently unattributed and citable only as disproven copyright claims — would sharpen it; consortium retractions, successful rebuttals, or adjudication in Soft2bet's favour would reduce it. Guilt and innocence belong to the courts, and this profile asserts neither.3,4,CL-08,CL-10,CL-11
This conclusion is capped at 'reported' evidence class throughout: every load-bearing allegation derives from investigative journalism, not adjudicated records. The DMCA campaign is confirmed fraudulent by the targeted outlets, but authorship is unestablished and must not be ascribed to Poliavich or Soft2bet. Financial figures from leaked records are not independently verified primary documents.
