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Online playing operator 32Pink has been hit with a £2m penalty for failing to guard a problem gambler.
One customer was allowed to deposit £758,000 with the agency with no cash laundering or social accountability checks.
The Gambling Commission mentioned the penalty additionally associated to cash laundering failures.
Kindred, which owns 32Pink, mentioned it accepted the penalty and was "working hard" to enhance its processes.
The Gambling Commission's investigation targeted on 32Pink's dealings with the customer between November 2014 and April 2017 throughout which era there have been at the least 22 incidents indicating the customer was a problem gambler.
"Instead of checking on the welfare of a customer displaying problem gambling behaviour, 32Red encouraged the customer to gamble morethis is the exact opposite of what they are supposed to be doing," mentioned Richard Watson, the commission's government director mentioned.
"Operators must take action when they spot signs of problem gambling and should be carefully reviewing all the customers they are having a high level of contact with."
There had additionally been earlier incidents highlighting the gambler's issues however as a substitute of scrutinising these, the customer was provided bonuses to hold on inserting bets.
The Gambling Commission mentioned 32Pink ought to have reviewed the customer's accounts in August 2016 however one was solely performed in January 2017, when a win of extra then £1m was immediately gambled once more.
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The customer took 5 weeks to reply to requests about their monetary place and failed to supply help when the knowledge was offered, the commission mentioned.
The payslip and report of commission for work was "not credible and showed volatility in receipted income", in keeping with the Gambling Commission.
These confirmed a month-to-month internet earnings of £13,000 however common month-to-month deposits had been in extra of £45,000. The customer's common month-to-month internet wage was really £2,150.
The £2m penalty consists of £709,046 divestment of the monetary acquire, a £1.3m fee for use on the National Responsible Gambling Strategy, supposed to deal with problem playing, and £15,000 in the direction of the price of the investigation.
Asked if the customer had stolen the cash to gamble, the Gambling Commission spokesman mentioned: "The source of the customer's wealth was not known to 32Red because they failed to fulfil their anti-money laundering obligations. We cannot comment on any other proceedings that may be active."
The largest penalty imposed by the Gambling Commission was the £7.8m penalty on betting agency 888 in August 2017.
32Pink was taken over by Kindred, a Swedish on-line betting firm, in June 2017.