{"id":9667,"date":"2025-08-19T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/entain-fined-632-million-making-it-uks-second-biggest-offender\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:02:18","slug":"entain-fined-632-million-making-it-uks-second-biggest-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/entain-fined-632-million-making-it-uks-second-biggest-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"Entain Fined \u00a3632 Million Making It UK\u2019s Second Biggest Offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Entain PLC, one of the biggest names in sports betting and gambling, has found itself near the top of the UK\u2019s corporate fines list. A new study from risk management specialists Protecht, which analysed more than 36,000 fines issued between 2020 and 2024, revealed that <strong>Entain has been fined a staggering \u00a3632 million across four offences during that period.<\/strong> <strong>Only Airbus, penalised over \u00a31 billion, recorded higher losses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><strong>Good to Know<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Entain paid one of the largest fines of the decade in 2023, totalling \u00a3615 million.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The company\u2019s average penalty per offence was \u00a3158 million.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Nearly all sports betting industry fines in the UK since 2020 have been paid by Entain.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>The biggest blow<\/strong> came in 2023, when HMRC fined Entain <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/casino-news\/entain-allocates-585m-for-settlement-in-hmrc-investigation\/\">\u00a3585 million in penalties<\/a> and profit disgorgement linked to alleged bribery failures at its former Turkish operations. As part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, Entain also agreed to donate \u00a320 million to charity and cover \u00a310 million in costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A year earlier<\/strong>, in 2022, the UK Gambling Commission imposed a \u00a317 million fine after finding weaknesses in Entain\u2019s anti-money laundering and player protection systems. The regulator flagged issues across both its online platforms\u2014such as Ladbrokes, Coral, and Foxy Bingo\u2014and in physical betting shops.<\/p>\n<p>Entain has <strong>also been penalised<\/strong> twice for labour standards violations, though these were much smaller in scale, totalling just over \u00a323,000. 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Almost the entire amount came from Entain. By contrast, industries such as aerospace, banking, and securities faced higher totals, but with penalties spread across multiple companies.<\/p>\n<p>While the research highlighted cases involving other global giants like Airbus, Credit Suisse, and Glencore, Entain is the only gambling operator in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/casino-news\/entain-fined-632-million-making-it-uks-second-biggest-offender\/\">Entain Fined \u00a3632 Million Making It UK\u2019s Second Biggest Offender<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/\">iGaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entain PLC, one of the biggest names in sports betting and gambling, has found itself near the top of the UK\u2019s corporate fines list. A new study from risk management specialists Protecht, which analysed more than 36,000 fines issued between 2020 and 2024, revealed that Entain has been fined a staggering \u00a3632 million across four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}