What we do

As a global non-profit association, with a multi-stakeholder network, we support licensed state lotteries in their mission to ensure integrity and fight crime in sport.
We offer a complete ecosystem of preventive (education, training, networking) and interventional services (monitoring, detection, reporting, stakeholder and law enforcement collaboration) that are lottery savvy. Licensed state lotteries, monitoring and detection platforms, law enforcement agencies and regulators can all seamlessly collaborate and exchange information under one roof.
Value Proposition

Integrity is critical to the ethos, reputation and commercial viability of sports. The manipulation of sports competitions undermines not only the integrity of sports, but also the credibility and reputation of the lottery and betting sectors. When it comes to preventing, monitoring and managing illegal sports betting - a complex task that requires tools, skill, a network, collaboration and industry knowledge - it is important to act effectively and fast.

We at ULIS are dedicated to helping lotteries protect the integrity of sports competitions, acting as a beacon, guiding you to navigate and proactively manage the complex world of sports.

We serve licensed state lotteries and lottery associations, lottery suppliers, but also other sports integrity associations, sports entities, national gambling bodies, law enforcement agencies and intergovernmental bodies, providing them with benefits that only a global expert and community of like-minded professionals can , by offering a complete set of services under one roof.

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Objectives

Monitoring and sharing

Monitoring and sharing information about suspicious betting patterns or other practices that could indicate a breach of sports integrity.

Supporting investigations

Supporting investigations with evidence of suspicious betting patterns and additional data supplemented by an extended human analysis network that can assist in filing cases of competition manipulation.

Cooperating

Cooperating with law enforcement agencies, betting regulators, sports organizations, intergovernmental bodies, and national and international authorities, on exchanging information related to sports integrity issues.

Developing educational resources

Developing and implementing educational resources and programs for preventing competition manipulation, illegal betting practices, and fighting against crime in sports.

Successful Cases
Combating match fixing and illegal sports betting relies on effective communication and information sharing between legal sports betting operators and their stakeholders. To keep members up to date on the latest opportunities and challenges, ULIS regularly shares best practices and case studies.
Successful Story #4
The Moldovan Case
The Moldovan Case
FC Florești and CSF Speranța season 2020-2021

During the 2020-2021 edition of the Moldovan Football Championship, several matches involving the clubs FC Florești and CSF Speranța were closely followed by the Moldovan Football Federation for suspicion of match fixing.

The Moldovan Case
ULIS intelligence and reports

ULIS (former GLMS), through its intelligence network and monitoring platform, produced a series of integrity reports on the matches involving the two teams, FC Florești and CSF Speranța. The ULIS reports were used by the Modovan authorities in the investigations that also involved a number of more than 30 players.

The Moldovan Case
May 2021

Based on information from the FMF Integrity Department dated 26 January 2021, as well as the reports from ULIS and betting data companies, the Moldovan Football Federation Ethics Committee sanctioned the players Artiom Zeleniuc, Andrei Calac, Mihail Bolun, Matvii Guiganov, Orest Budyuk and Oleksandr Nasonov, with suspension from football activities for a period of one year. 

The Moldovan Case
May 2021

FC Florești was sanctioned with the deduction of 6 points from the 2021/22 edition of the RM Football Championship. CSF Speranța was sanctioned with a fine of MDL 200,000.00 (approx. USD 11,492).

Successful Story #3
The Dutch Case
The Dutch Case
January 2015

The Dutch Football Association KNVB, received some signals regarding a possible manipulated match by an Albanian club, KF Skenderbeu Korce. His club played friendly matches against Dutch clubs during the winter stop in Spain.

The Dutch Case
Dutch FA approached ULIS
The Dutch Case
A few hours later

Dutch FA received reports from ULIS based on odds movements from the international, Asian and lottery markets and from the ULIS-members.

The Dutch Case
July 2016

The Court of Arbitritation of Sport (CAS) dismissed Skënderbeu's appeal against the Ueafa decision to ban the club from the Champions League for season due to its involvement in fixed matches

The Dutch Case
September 2016

Words of Thanks received by ULIS from the Dutch football association

The Dutch Case
Dutch FA:

"With this valuable information we could advise our clubs to organize friendly matches in the future against opponents they know, and not to organize matches against teams with a questionable reputation."

Successful Story #2
The Swedish Case
The Swedish Case
ULIS Monitoring

The odds movements pre-live did not raise any big concerns - During live betting it seemed like some punters on the Asian market placed some money for the away win as well as over 2.75 goals. The odds changes during live betting were irregular and went against the natural odds movements.

The Swedish Case
ULIS Member's input:

Svenska Spel: "We have found some guys in our betting flow that has been involved in suspicious things before. And the movements look strange both pre and live."

The Swedish Case
European & Asian Markets:

During live betting there were some indications that the punters went for away win both on the Asian Handicap -X-2 market and totals (over). 

The Swedish Case
European & Asian Markets:

When the match started Landskrona had, according to the odds on the Asian 1-X-2 market, 60% possibility of winning the match. After 12 minutes with the score still 0-0 the possibility for Landskrona to win increased to 70%. Normally, the possibility to win would be lowered as time was running and the score was 0-0.

The Swedish Case

 Svenska Spel excluded team from betting offer and informed national authorities

ULIS recommended other ULIS Members to exclude this team from their offers

Successful Story #1
Lampatey CAS Case
Lampatey CAS Case
12 November 2016

World Cup 2018 Qualification Match, South Africa vs Senegal

Lampatey CAS Case
12 November 2016:

ULIS was the first monitoring system to send an alert to FIFA - other monitoring systems also sent alerts in the following days.

Lampatey CAS Case
Lifetime ban

FIFA's Disciplinary and Appeal Committees lifetime ban on Ghanian match official Joseph Odartei Lamptey

Lampatey CAS Case
CAS validates desicison

The CAS validated the decision by FIFA's Disciplinary and Appeal Committees

Lampatey CAS Case
January 2018:

CAS published decision: ULIS was mentioned as one of the monitoring systems that detected abnormalities - evidence used by the Court

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