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This article is the result of a collaboration with Josimar. You can find Josimar’s corresponding piece here. One of the world’s most controversial bookmakers takes bets on thousands of amateur sports events live-streamed to its website. The locations of the games are a secret. Bellingcat has geolocated sites in three countries where these matches are played.

Satellite imagery is increasingly used by open source researchers to analyse conflict,natural disasters, mining activities and even construction work. With the help of Planet Labs PBC and Umbra Space, Bellingcat can take a snapshot of anywhere in the world by “tasking” their satellites to take an image at up to 25-centimetre resolution. Bellingcat asked you, our c