The Briantie Group Revealed: An Offshore Casino Network Anchored in Cyprus

The Briantie Group, structured around the Cyprus-registered company Briantie Limited and the Curaçao-licensed entity Wiraon B.V., represents a high-risk offshore gambling model. This setup relies on EU-based payment facilitators and poorly transparent crypto processors to reach players in restricted jurisdictions, including Italy. The group’s corporate layering, domain usage, and payment architecture present substantial regulatory, AML, and CTF concerns.

Corporate and Operational Structure

Briantie Limited is incorporated in Cyprus as a private limited company and appears to function as an EU-based payment and operational intermediary for Verde Casino and potentially affiliated brands. Meanwhile, the core gambling authorization is provided by Wiraon B.V., a Curaçao entity operating under licence 8048/JAZ.

Together, these entities form what can reasonably be described as the Briantie Group: a hybrid structure combining offshore licensing with EU-adjacent financial access. In this arrangement:

• Curaçao supplies the formal gambling licence and hosting framework.
• Cyprus offers proximity to the EU payments ecosystem, including SEPA access and relationships with EU payment institutions.

This division of roles appears designed to distribute legal exposure and complicate enforcement across jurisdictions.

Domain Strategy and Market Targeting

A review of Verde Casino conducted by Scam-Or Project identified the use of mutated and parameter-laden URLs, including examples such as:

https://85verdecasino.com/it-it#https://85verdecasino.com/it-it#

These URLs are clearly optimized for Italian-language users, indicating deliberate targeting of players in Italy—a jurisdiction where unlicensed online gambling is prohibited and actively enforced.

Such domain mutation is a well-known evasion technique. By rotating domains and deploying short-lived or parameterized URLs, operators can:

• Circumvent ISP-level blocking orders
• Reduce brand traceability
• Obscure the technical footprint of illegal gambling operations

Crypto Payments and the Role of TheDex

The Verde Casino payment flow includes extensive crypto payment options routed through third-party providers. One such gateway is TheDex (thedex.cloud), an anonymous operator presenting itself as a crypto exchange or payment service while offering virtually no disclosure regarding corporate structure, licensing, or ownership.

The cyber-risk rating agency RatEx42 has already placed TheDex on its blacklist due to its role in enabling illegal online casinos.

In addition, the Polish provider ChainValley appears to be involved in facilitating so-called synthetic FIAT deposits. Under this model:

1. Customers initiate standard bank transfers.
2. Funds are converted into cryptocurrencies.
3. Crypto assets are automatically forwarded to the casino operator as the final beneficiary.

From a compliance standpoint, this layered payment structure—combining offshore casinos, EU-based intermediaries, and opaque crypto gateways—poses severe risks. It weakens customer due diligence, obscures source-of-funds verification, and significantly elevates money-laundering and sanctions exposure.

Payment Provider Risk Signals

Skrill has classified Briantie Limited as a non-eligible merchant for its promotional and incentive programmes. The company is listed in Skrill’s internal “Non-Eligible Skrill Merchants” register, indicating that established PSPs actively segregate higher-risk entities linked to offshore gambling from standard commercial benefits.

This classification underscores the elevated risk profile attributed to Briantie-associated operations within the regulated payments sector.

Regulatory and Compliance Assessment

Briantie Limited, together with its licence holder Wiraon B.V. and the Verde Casino brand, has appeared on multiple regulatory watchlists and technical blocklists across jurisdictions.

Notably:

• The OpenSanctions framework includes Briantie Limited in its Lithuania Illegal Gambling Operators dataset, identifying the company as an unlicensed provider in that market.
• In Italy, the primary Verde Casino domain is subject to administrative blocking orders issued by the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM). Italian ISPs are required to restrict access to unlicensed gambling platforms under ADM’s continuously updated blacklist regime.

These actions demonstrate that authorities are not only aware of the Briantie/Verde configuration but have already implemented concrete countermeasures through blacklisting, sanctions-style listings, and technical blocking.

Key Findings

Our analysis highlights the following risk factors:

• Regulatory arbitrage: Curaçao is used for permissive gambling oversight, while Cyprus provides EU-adjacent payment access and perceived legitimacy.
• EU payment agent exposure: The apparent role of Briantie Limited as a payment intermediary creates supervisory blind spots if EU banks or PSPs process funds without accurate merchant risk classification.
• Targeting of prohibited markets: Italian-focused mutated domains indicate intentional circumvention of national gambling laws and blocking mechanisms.
• Opaque crypto infrastructure: Reliance on non-transparent processors such as TheDex severely undermines AML/CTF controls, FATF-aligned safeguards, and Travel Rule compliance.
• Fragmented operational design: The overall setup illustrates how illegal casino operators can function “in plain sight” by distributing activities across offshore entities, EU-based intermediaries, and lightly regulated crypto on-ramps.

Core Structures and Relationships

Call for Information

We encourage affected players, payment-industry professionals, and former or current employees of Briantie, Verde Casino, TheDex, ChainValley, or related intermediaries to share documentation, transaction data, or technical evidence confidentially via the Scam-Or Project whistleblower section.