On May 15, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission announced that it had carried out a searches of businesses active in the betting industry as “part of an ongoing criminal investigation into potential breaches of competition law”. Such searches are commonly referred to as “dawn raids”, it said. The watchdog has the power to search homes and businesses unannounced, provided it gets a search warrant from the district court. It said that it would search for “information and evidence” where it has reason to believe that companies or individuals are “not compliant with competition or consumer protection law,” it wrote…

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