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Gamesys to pay £1.2m penalty for UK social responsibility and AML failures

12th June 2019 8:05 am GMT

Gibraltar-based online gaming operator Gamesys has agreed to forfeit £460,472 in stolen funds and pay a financial penalty of £690,000 in the United Kingdom for failing to prevent gambling harm and breaching money laundering regulations.

The penalty package from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) follows an investigation into the operator’s processes after police found that three individuals had gambled with stolen funds.

The UKGC said that the operator failed to deliver interaction that could have prevented harm, [...]

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