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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rob Davies

Online gambling firm fined nearly £500,000 for only checking winners’ credentials

A man gambles online on a laptop.
The online casino told customers it had the right to request ID for ‘all withdrawals’ despite not having insisted on those same checks earlier. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/Rex/Shutterstock

An online betting firm has been fined £442,750 for demanding ID from winning punters before it would give them the cash, while failing to carry out similar checks on potentially vulnerable people depositing money.

The Gambling Commission punished TonyBet, which is based in Estonia but has a licence to operate in Great Britain, for imposing unfair terms and failures in anti-money laundering and social responsibility measures.

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