Leak reveals huge profits from Ossi Ketola’s online casino
Tuesday 10th November 2026 on 14:16 in
Finland
A data leak reviewed by Yle’s MOT programme and verification team shows that Finnish entrepreneur Ossi Ketola’s online gambling business generated tens of millions of euros a year. His company Moonrail Limited reported revenue of more than 60 million euros and a profit of 48 million euros in 2024.
Ketola, 28, was the company’s sole owner in 2024, according to the leaked documents. Moonrail operates CSGOEmpire, a gambling website where users can also bet with virtual video game items that have real monetary value.
The company was established in 2018, after CSGOEmpire had already been operating for about two years. From 2018 to 2024, Moonrail recorded a total of 194 million euros in revenue and 141 million euros in profits. It distributed about 110 million euros in dividends over that period, according to its financial statements.
The figures do not include Ketola’s other significant gambling businesses. His income has attracted little attention in Finland because it does not appear in Finnish tax or company records. Ketola is officially resident in Monaco and has had no income taxable in Finland in recent years, Yle reports.
Moonrail is registered in Curaçao, an autonomous island belonging to the Netherlands in the Caribbean. The island, which is known as a tax haven, has a population of about 160,000 and is home to more than 8,000 registered online casinos. Curaçao does not tax profits that companies registered there earn outside the island.
The leaked documents were obtained by German journalist and data scientist Lilith Wittmann, who published some of the material online. Curaçao keeps information about company owners and beneficial owners secret.
Ketola has also become a prominent figure on Finnish social media this year, in part because of videos and incidents involving people dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants at rapper Sliki’s gigs. Ketola has denied being involved in the disruptions. Yle attempted to contact him through social media for comment, but he did not respond.