Irish influencer promotes unlicensed gambling site months after Central Bank investigation

Social media personality Nasti_2k promotes offshore betting platform while under scrutiny for previous trading promotion

Jonathan Finlay, also known as nasti_2k, during the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division match between Bohemians and Dundalk at Dalymount Park in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Content creator and influencer Jonathan Finlay has transitioned from unregulated financial trading to unregulated sports betting, with the social media personality now promoting an unlicensed gambling company to his thousands of online followers.

Mr Finlay, who has amassed a substantial online following across Instagram, TikTok, and encrypted messaging app Telegram under the username Nasti_2k, is the subject of a Central Bank investigation that started last year after he promoted an unauthorised financial trading platform, T4Trade.