Skybet to pay £1m penalty package following Gambling Commission investigation

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) have announced that Skybet has been fined £1m as a result of the company ‘failing to protect vulnerable customers’. In its investigation, the UKGC found three separate breaches of regulations, the first was where 736 self-excluded customers managed to open duplicate accounts allowing them to continue to gamble between November 2014 and 2017. The second breach occurred when  around 50...