Ukraine is intensifying its campaign against unauthorized online gambling as the country continues its slow march toward a regulated online market.

On Wednesday, the Cyber Police of Ukraine announced that it had teamed up with the Office of Strategic Investigation in the Kiev region to target a number of illegal online casinos that disguised themselves as “legitimate IT development” businesses.

The illegal operators reportedly served both Ukrainian and international customers, generating a “monthly income” of around $1m. The authorities seized the usual combination of computers and documentation, all of which are being studied to trace the operation up the food chain to the big cheese(s).

That action followed a late-January bust of a Kiev-based online casino turnkey service disguised as a software hub for online video games. That bust resulted in the arrest of some 50 IT staffers who reportedly served a total customer base of around 300k gamblers.