Bangladesh plans to expand its gambling ban to cover iGaming, VPNs, proxies, mirror sites, and hosting services

Bangladesh is preparing to update its blanket gambling ban so it explicitly covers iGaming, VPN use, proxy servers, mirror sites, hosting services, and related tools. The enforcement piece matters: the plan also calls for AI to monitor compliance, which tells PSPs and infrastructure providers this is not just a gambling-law tweak but a broader attempt to choke off access and distribution.

1. Bangladesh’s current total ban on gambling is set to be expanded to include iGaming, along with VPNs, proxy servers, mirror sites, hosting services, and similar infrastructure used to reach or support gambling activity.
2. The proposed update is aimed at the access layer as much as the gambling activity itself. In practice, that means the target is not only operators, but also the technical routes players use to get to them.
3. Compliance monitoring would be handled by AI, according to the report. For payment and infrastructure providers, that is the key operational detail: enforcement is being framed as automated, not purely complaint-driven or manual.
4. The source does not provide a rollout date, draft text, or enforcement timetable. So for now the only hard fact is direction of travel: Bangladesh wants the ban to reach the tools that make blocked gambling still reachable.