
ACMA has recently announced that Entain was unveiled to have not legal wagering transactions and has been penalized for violating the terms.
Though, the company has been instructed to make a payment of the highest fine confirmed by Interactive Gambling Act 2001. As the company has violated those provisions, it resulted to of $13,320 to be paid. The problem was that the gambling company has confirmed about 80 bets that were made during the Bangkok LIV Golf competition.
The head of ACMA, Nerida O’Loughlin, announced that this is the first instance where her agency has imposed a fine for breaking Australia’s wagering terms and regulations, which were established to safeguard individuals.
O’Loughlin stated that:
Online betting raises the likelihood of gambling addiction for individuals who are already susceptible to its adverse effects because it delivers immediate results and enables more frequent wagering.
Entain acknowledged that the violations were the result of an error made by its parent company when inputting the start time of the event into its systems. In the long run, customers could wager after the end of the event.
O’Loughlin expressed her disappointment, commenting that:
Entain is a well–established gambling and betting company, and it is regrettable that it could not provide with adequate mechanisms to hamper or identify such problems.
Entain was informed of the problem by a user notification almost a few hours of the occasion and then canceled all illicit wagers. ACMA also confirmed that Entain met its requirement to double check and make better its in–play policies to anticipate any incidents and avoid those.