Since 2017, the Gambling Authority has issued almost 400 injunctions, injunctions and warnings to the gaming industry to break or be on the edge of rules that must ensure accountability in the industry in relation to, among other things, gambling addiction and money laundering.
It writes Politiken.
Exactly, the control body has intervened 396 times since 2017, the newspaper writes.
It is not known exactly what the injunctions, injunctions and warnings were about. As the law is today, it is not presented.
But according to the rules, companies can be criticized for, among other things, selling games to children, misleading consumers or not living up to obligations in relation to money laundering, the newspaper writes.
Ole Thyssen is Professor Emeritus at Copenhagen Business School. According to him, the 396 injunctions, injunctions and warnings are a high number.
– And it is grotesque that on the one hand they perform in public and are accessible to the Danes, but that the public on the other hand must not know what they are doing wrong. It is a very peculiar situation, he says to Politiken.
The newspaper has also been given access to documents, which shows that from 2012 to 2019, fines of DKK 2.19 million have been issued for breaches of the gaming area’s rules.
Politiken has been in contact via email with Kate Jacquerot, who is the legal director of Danske Spil.
She writes to the newspaper that she sees no problem in there being greater openness about what the companies in the industry get from injunctions and penalties.
Minister of Taxation Morten Bødskov (S) tells Politiken that they have a political proposal ready.
– On my table is a proposal for citizens to be able to see what orders the various gaming companies have received. The short of the long is that we are in progress, and this is a concrete proposal, which I will present to the parties during the autumn, he says to the newspaper.
Source: The Nordic Page