The world’s largest illegal sports streaming site, Streameast, has been shut down through a joint operation by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and police in Egypt. The site, which garnered over 1.6 billion visits in the past year, offered pirated streams of live sports like Premier League football and Formula One races.

• Streameast had been visited over 1.6 billion times in the past year.
• The operation involved the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and police in Egypt.
• Police seized laptops, smartphones, cash, and credit cards during the raid, also uncovering links to a UAE shell company used to launder £4.9 million in advertising revenue and £150,000 in cryptocurrency.