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The Gambling Commission has fined Grosvenor Casinos Limited, along with two other companies owned by Rank Group, £5 million for failing to meet anti-money laundering and social responsibility standards. The investigation revealed that the casinos had unclear policies leading to inadequate risk assessments for high-risk customers and sources of funds, such as cryptocurrency use and students from China being improperly categorized at standard risk levels. Additionally, the commission found instances where staff failed to conduct necessary safer gambling interactions with potentially harmed players, like one customer who lost significant amounts after large winnings without intervention.
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Grosvenor Casinos Limited, Grosvenor Casinos (GC) Limited, and Gaming Group Limited, which collectively run 51 casinos across Britain and are owned by Rank Group, will pay a £5 million fine after the Gambling Commission found significant failures in their operations. The regulator's investigation uncovered issues with anti-money laundering and social responsibility duties, such as unclear policies that led to inappropriate risk levels for high-risk customers using cryptocurrency assets or from countries like China without proper scrutiny. Additionally, staff did not adequately engage in safer gambling practices with at-risk customers. Sue Young, the Gambling Commission’s executive director of operations, advised other casino operators to review their own business practices to avoid similar issues and potential regulatory action.
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Grosvenor Casinos owner to pay £5m after watchdog finds gambling failures
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The Gambling Commission said Grosvenor Casinos Limited, Grosvenor Casinos (GC) Limited and Gaming Group Limited run 51 casinos across Britain.
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Limited → say → Britain
They are owned by Rank Group, a FTSE-listed business which also runs Mecca bingo halls and online casinos.
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which → own → halls
The regulator’s investigation into the venues identified failures to meet anti-money laundering and social responsibility duties.
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investigation → identify → duties
This included having unclear policies, procedures and controls which resulted in inappropriate risk levels being ascribed to high-risk customers and high-risk sources of funds being used without appropriate scrutiny, the review found.
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review → include → scrutiny
It used examples of records showing a customer using cryptocurrency assets as a source of their funds, and a customer identified as a student from China, neither of whom were ascribed higher than the standard risk levels.
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neither → use → levels
In these cases, enhanced due diligence checks should have been carried out, according to the Gambling Commission.
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It also identified instances where staff did not have safer gambling interactions with customers at risk of experiencing harm.
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An example included a long-standing customer who won about £260,000 in a short space of time then lost about £250,000 in 12 days, without safer gambling interactions being recorded.
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Sue Young, the Gambling Commission’s executive director of operations, said: “We would advise all premises-based operators to take a careful look at this case and ensure their own business is not making the same mistakes and, therefore, they do not face costly and inevitable commission action.”
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