Having lost hope that the legal gambling market would not be able to withstand the challenges posed by the war, illegal gambling business hoped for its rapid decline and the curtailment of the reform. When they realized that this did not happen and legal organizers were able to keep their business and continued to pay billions of hryvnias to the state budget, illegal gambling business returned to actively discrediting the legal market through the media. Such behavior is beneficial for illegal gambling business, as they accuse legal gambling of something that is actually their own fault. Read more