Swedish gambling regulator warns 16 licensees over reporting breaches
The licensees failed to report board or management changes.
Sweden.- The Swedish gambling regulator Spelinspektionen has warned that it’s begun monitoring whether licensees offering gambling for public causes correctly report changes in their boards and/or management as required under regulations.
According to Chapter 4, Section 11 of Sweden’s Gambling Act, changes in the board and/or management must be reported to the Swedish Gambling Authority within 14 days. However, a recent inspection covering 17 licensees found that 16 had failed to report such changes on at least one occasion.
The 16 bodies that failed to meet the reporting requirements have received warnings or remarks alongside financial penalties. The cases have now been closed for all but one of them.
Those warned include Karlholms GoIF, Brunflo Sports Association, Lesjöfors Sports Association, Lidköpings Football Club, the Motorists’ Sobriety Association, and Ulvåker IF.
The Swedish regulator has been on a bit of a clampdown recently. While enforcement action in recent years has tended to focus on online gambling, and particularly on targeting unlicensed operators, recent actions show that the regulator wants to ensure smaller operators, including charitable gaming licensees abide by the rules.
It recently warned the Swedish Bingo Association about information deficiencies at two venues: Idrottens Bingo in Linköping and Bingoringen in Karlskoga following physical inspections during which they were found not to be displaying required contact details and information about beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, the operator ATG has suggested that some progress is being made against unlicensed gambling in Sweden on the basis of its own latest estimates.
