Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?

Section 12 of the Gambling Prevention Act, 2026 criminalises the use of VPNs, mirror sites, hosting services and content-delivery-network infrastructure to facilitate gambling activity, with section 23 attaching penalties of up to seven years' imprisonment and a fine of up to Tk 5 crore to this conduct. The provision extends liability beyond the operator placing bets to the technical intermediaries and infrastructure providers whose services enable continued access to gambling platforms, including offshore-hosted ones reaching Bangladeshi users through circumvention technology. There is no certification, standards-conformance or technical-compliance regime of the kind found in licensed markets; the Act's only technical-facing provision is this facilitation offence, which functions as an enforcement lever against infrastructure rather than a compliance pathway for operators.