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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Henry Belot

‘We stuffed a lot of things up’: Sportsbet CEO slams his company’s past advertising campaigns

Sportsbet signage during horse race
Sportsbet ‘forgot to do some grownup things’, the company’s chief executive Barni Evans has said. Photograph: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images

Australia’s largest online gambling company has conceded it failed to properly understand its responsibility to prevent financial crime and did not do enough to stop serious integrity threats to major sporting codes.

The Sportsbet chief executive, Barni Evans, told an industry conference in Sydney on Wednesday that the company “forgot to do some grownup things” and “stuffed a lot of things up”, including its involvement in an advertising “arms race”.

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