Six Irish company registrations link the blacklisted Soft2Bet network to Dublin, from Maltix in 2022 to Zentoria’s payment routing for Onlyspins. What does new regulator GRAI do now?

Key Findings

– Ireland’s new Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRAI) inherited six company registrations linked to Soft2Bet, a Malta and Cyprus-based iGaming supplier under investigation for over 140 gambling websites, many blacklisted across the EU.
– The registrations relate to Ireland’s beneficial ownership records, not full gambling licences, but gave the network official documentation within an EU member state’s corporate infrastructure.
– Three Soft2Bet-linked entities share a Dublin registered address, and one, Zentoria, was used to route card payments for an active casino brand called Onlyspins despite appearing dormant.
– GRAI declined to comment on the specific entities, leaving open whether it will investigate or unwind the registrations it inherited when it assumed regulatory control on 1 July 2026.

On 1 July 2026, Ireland’s new Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRAI) formally took control of licensing for a market that Dublin had, for years, barely policed. Among the files it inherited sits a cluster of registrations that tie the Irish state’s official records to Soft2Bet, the Malta and Cyprus based iGaming supplier at the centre of a cross-border investigation into more than 140 gambling websites, over 100 of them blacklisted across EU member states.

According to reporting by The Irish Times, six Irish company registrations have been linked to the Soft2Bet network since 2022. They give a network accused of running unlicensed casinos a documented presence inside the regulated corporate infrastructure of an EU member state. None of this proves wrongdoing by any Irish body. But it is the paper trail that made parts of the operation look legitimate, and the paper trail GRAI now owns.

Asked about the entities, the regulator declined to comment on individual operators. For a body two weeks into its remit, that refusal is procedurally normal. It also leaves the central question open: what did Ireland actually register, and does GRAI intend to unwind it?

What Ireland Actually Registered on the Soft2Bet Network
The first of the six entries dates to April 2022, when Maltix Limited, the Malta licensed operating company inside the Soft2Bet corporate chain, was entered onto the Irish register. Maltix is Cypriot owned, routing up through holding structures controlled by founder and sole beneficial owner Uri Poliavich. Its appearance in Irish records in 2022 is the point at which the network’s footprint in Dublin becomes traceable.

A distinction matters here, because the word “licence” is doing heavy lifting in how these registrations have been described. The entries relate to Ireland’s Register of Beneficial Ownership (RBO) and associated company filings, the disclosures every Irish incorporated entity must make about who ultimately owns and controls it. That is not the same thing as a substantive gambling operating licence of the kind GRAI can now issue and revoke. The significance is different, and arguably sharper: the network engaged with Ireland’s transparency machinery and came away with clean, official documentation attached to its corporate names.

Five more registrations followed the 2022 Maltix entry, bringing the count to six. Who registered, where, and through whom is where the trail turns specific.

IRELAND’S SOFT2BET-LINKED REGISTRATIONS

Key dates in the Irish corporate trail linked to Soft2Bet, per Irish Times reporting.

The Cafico Address and the Zentoria Casino
Three of the network-linked entities, Zentoria, Salvia and Sky Rain, share a single registered address: the offices of Cafico International on Waterloo Road, Dublin. Cafico is a corporate services provider, and there is nothing unusual about several client entities carrying the same service-agent address. The clustering matters because of what one of those entities is attached to.

Zentoria’s registration, according to The Irish Times, covers an online casino that is inactive, a site that does not appear to be trading. Yet that dormant casino shares an IP address with dozens of other Soft2bet sites, the same technical fingerprint investigators have used across this story to bind ostensibly separate brands into one operating network. An inactive front with live infrastructure behind it is a familiar shape in this investigation.

The more concrete finding concerns money. Card payments for a live casino brand, Onlyspins, were routed to Zentoria. Put plainly, an Irish registered company became a conduit for processing player card transactions tied to a casino in the wider network. The mechanics of Onlyspins itself, including questions about its age-verification controls, belong to a separate strand of this series and are examined in Onlyspins and the Age-Verification Gap: Inside the Network’s Newest Casino. The Irish angle establishes something narrower and, for a regulator, more awkward: the payment path ran through a Dublin registered entity.

None of the three Cafico-linked names, nor Maltix, has been the subject of a publicly confirmed enforcement action by a gambling regulator. That absence runs through the entire Soft2Bet story, and investigators have attributed it to EU regulatory fragmentation and, in particular, to Malta’s protective legislation. How that legal shield works is the subject of a companion article, Bill 55: How Malta’s Legal Shield Blocks EU Gambling Judgments, and is not re-argued here.

GRAI DECLINES TO COMMENT

The new regulator inherited the network-linked registrations on its second week in operation.

GRAI’s Inheritance and the Questions It Has Not Answered
The timing is the problem. GRAI became Ireland’s gambling licensing authority on 1 July 2026, the exact week the second wave of Soft2Bet reporting landed. The body was created to bring order to a market that had never had a dedicated regulator, and its first days in operation coincided with findings that name Irish registered companies as components of a blacklisted network.

The wider financial picture that gives these registrations their weight, the roughly €600 million that investigators say moved through the network’s unlicensed casinos, is documented in the lead article of this series, The Soft2bet Files: Inside the €600 Million Money Trail From Blacklisted Casinos, and the payment-facilitation questions are handled in Two UK Payment Firms Processed €600 Million for a Blacklisted Gambling Network. Ireland’s contribution to that picture is not the volume of money. It is the legitimacy: six official Irish records attached to network entities, one of them serving as a live payment conduit.

Several questions sit unresolved, and they are questions for GRAI rather than for the reporting.

Whether the six registrations remain valid, and whether any confer operating rights GRAI can now suspend, has not been made public. The regulator’s blanket refusal to discuss individual operators means the public cannot yet tell whether the Zentoria payment route to Onlyspins is being examined, tolerated, or has already been closed. Nor is it clear whether the transparency filings the network made, the beneficial-ownership disclosures behind the Maltix and Cafico entries, were complete and accurate, or whether they named the ultimate controllers in the chain that runs up to Poliavich.

Then there is what a service-agent address does and does not tell a regulator. Cafico International provided a registered address to Zentoria, Salvia and Sky Rain. That is a commercial service, not an endorsement. But leaning on a Dublin corporate services provider to host the registered presence of network-linked entities is exactly the kind of arrangement beneficial-ownership registers exist to see through, and seeing through it was the point of creating GRAI.

The network’s response to scrutiny elsewhere suggests it treats adverse findings as something to be managed rather than answered. Anonymous actors filed bogus copyright complaints with Google in an attempt to de-index earlier Soft2Bet coverage, an episode examined in Fake Copyright, Real Censorship: The DMCA Campaign Targeting the Soft2bet Investigation. Set against that, the value of the Irish records is that they are official, dated, and hard to disappear. Maltix, April 2022. Zentoria, Salvia and Sky Rain at Waterloo Road. Card payments for Onlyspins flowing to a company on Ireland’s own register.

GRAI now decides what those entries are worth.