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UK – £6.1m fine for online operator In Touch Games
By 필 -25 년 2023 월 XNUMX 일
A gambling business will pay a £6.1m penalty after a Gambling Commission investigation revealed social responsibility and money laundering failings.
In Touch Games – which operates 11 웹 사이트 including bonusboss.co.uk, cashmo.co.uk, drslot.co.uk, jammymonkey.com and slotfactory.com – failed a compliance assessment last March.
사회적 책임 실패에는 다음이 포함됩니다.
- 불규칙한 플레이 패턴 및 연장된 플레이 기간에 대한 상호 작용으로 플래그가 지정된 후 XNUMX주가 될 때까지 고객과 상호 작용하지 않습니다.
- 비사교적인 시간에 고객 지출 및 도박으로 인해 고객 계정이 신고된 후 이 정보를 확인하지 않고 월 6,000파운드를 벌었다는 고객의 말을 수락하는 행위.
Anti-money laundering failures included not adequately taking account of the risk of a customer being a beneficiary of a life insurance policy ; having links to high-risk jurisdictions; or being a politically exposed person (“PEP”), family member of a PEP or known close associates of a PEP, within its money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment.
It was also charged with not having policies, procedures and controls in place to address the risk factors mentioned above, not sufficiently considering the Commission’s money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment or the Commission’s guidance and not ensuring its policies, procedures and controls were implemented effectively, for example not following its own policy to request source of funds information from customers who had deposited and lost £10,000 in a 12-month period.
This is the third time ITG have faced regulatory action – in 2019 it paid a £2.2m settlement for regulatory failures and in 2021 it received a £3.4m fine and warning for further failures.
Kay Roberts, Executive Director of Operations, said: “Considering this operator’s history of failings we expected to see significant improvement when we carried out our planned compliance assessment. Disappointingly, although many improvements had been made, there was still more to do. This £6.1m fine shows that we will take escalating enforcement action where failures are repeated and all licensees should be acutely aware of this.”
