The General Directorate of Gambling Regulation (DGOJ), the governing body of the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, has just published the sanctions imposed in the online betting and gaming sector in the first half of 2024. In total, 15 websites have been sanctioned for “serious” or “very serious” infractions, with fines that, in total, exceed 65 million euros.
Of the 15 pages identified, thirteen are considered illegal and Pablo Bustinduy’s ministry has ordered their closure. They correspond with foreign operators online gambling that operate without a license in Spain.
The companies Interactive Pro, Stars Cream, Loveca Sino, Rougeca Sino, Mountberg, Alimanieri, Goldenpharaoh, Goldenlion, Golden Genie, Bigwins Games Tech, Games & More, Gladiator Holding and R.Bostock Enterprises are those sanctioned during the first half of the year. all of them with five million euros.
Sanctions for Codere
The DGOJ has also detected serious infractions in two other operators in the online betting and gaming sector during the first six months of 2024. The resolutions considered “serious” are directed at operators that do operate with a license, but that incur some type of criminal offense. They are the companies Codere and Electraworks, with a sum of mfines amounting to 325,000 euros.
As a result of the latest modification of the Gambling Regulation Law (LRJ), which establishes that serious and very serious administrative infringements will be published on the website of the DGOJ, the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 has made public the sanctioning resolutions that have become final since July 2021.
Since then, the number of sanctions published amounts to 154 (19, in the second half of 2021; 73, in 2022; 30 in the first half of 2023; 17 in the second half of 2023 and 15 in the first half of 2024) and has imposed fines for a total value of more than 398 million euros.
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