{"id":1782150,"date":"2026-04-09T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/?p=1782150"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:55:44","slug":"evolution-accuses-playtech-of-orchestrating-smear-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/gambling-news\/evolution-accuses-playtech-of-orchestrating-smear-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Smear Campaign or Legit Investigation? Evolution and Playtech to Battle It Out in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1649886\" src=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/evolution-ice-london-23-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, Black Cube published a report in which it accused Evolution of supplying content to illegal markets. Evolution denied allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit. For several years, it wasn\u2019t clear who commissioned the investigation. But it then turned out to be Playtech. Now, Evolution adds the company to the list of defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Playtech hired Black Cube to do the investigation. The parties agreed that Black Cube receives four different payments in case:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It finds proof of Evolution\u2019s illegal activities<\/li>\n<li>The news of that is published by a major outlet<\/li>\n<li>Investigation is launched into Evolution operations<\/li>\n<li>Evolution loses its license<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Evolution thinks this was a deliberate campaign to get rid of the competition. While Playtech is confident that the report is accurate and Evolution was involved in illegal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Black Cube published a report in which it accused Evolution of supplying content to illegal markets. Evolution denied allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit. For several years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1649887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1270,1410,1253],"class_list":["post-1782150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gambling-news","tag-evolution","tag-legal-battle","tag-playtech"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"nz","enabled_languages":["en","nz","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"nz":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clashofslots.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}