“The loyalty card that runs at Ladbrokes, that is not just to track customers. I mean you offer incentives for the loyalty card, don’t you? There are incentives to entice people to come into the betting shop. I declare an interest, chairman. I have one.”
Labour MP Jim Sheridan appears keen to protect his privacy during the Select Committee inquiry Maintaining integrity
The Gambling Commission’s Director of Regulation, Nick Tofiluk oversees the Commission’s Sports Betting Intelligence Unit’s (SBIU) work in maintaining the integrity of sports betting. The Commission is asking bookmakers and sports governing bodies to look in detail at the circumstances where the misuse of inside information results in unfairness…
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Since 2007 Gambling Com- mission licensed book- makers who suspect that sporting rules have been broken or a criminal offence committed have been report- ing their suspicions to the Gambling Commission’s Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU). As a result, the SBIU has looked into nearly 200 reports of suspicious betting patterns relating to sports events. It has also led the way in developing improved collaborative arrangements with bookmak- ers, sports governing bodies and the police. We have said many times that the harm caused by those individuals who manipulate and corrupt sports and betting is widespread. It impacts upon the reputation and interests of sport and of those engaged in sport, of bettors and legiti- mate betting operators and indeed upon national reputa-
tions. Through our experi- ence we have developed a high level of understanding as to how those concerned in such activity undertake their schemes.
The vast majority of those cases that we look at with sports governing bodies involve the use and abuse of what is commonly referred to as inside information. That’s why we are encouraging a transparent public debate over where the use of inside information for betting crosses the line into being unfair to the betting public and operators and heads towards being considered as criminal activity.
Most people would accept that a case involving an indi- vidual corrupting a sporting event to produce a specific result or particular occur- rences within the event itself, and telling co-conspirators in exchange for money directly
paid or a share of criminal profit from betting is misuse that should become subject to a criminal investigation. On the other hand, it’s widely accepted that some legitimate punters work hard to gather all the knowledge available to the public before making a bet and winning as a result. But how should we consider approaching a case where, for example, a sports official bets knowing privately as a result of his/her position that signifi- cant members of a team are laid low with a virus and won’t be available for selection or if playing are unlikely to perform well? We’ve set out our view of where the boundary might lie in a published paper called Betting integrity issues paper - inside information and fair and open betting. The paper sets out our view on inside information and poses a set of open questions on the
issues. We’ve already dis- cussed the detail with some major sports governing bodies and betting operators, but we welcome further con- tributions from the industry and the public.
Not only do we invite views on what is ‘fair and open’ in the betting context we are also considering the application of appropriate safeguards and sanctions by betting opera- tors, sports governing bodies (SGBs), the Commission and others. The paper also covers a range of issues connected with inside information and fair and open betting - the fair- ness of betting via agents or third parties, novelty bets, the use of social networking web- sites, and whether betting operators are already in a posi- tion to handle cases where their own employees become involved in betting on an event involving corruption and/or inside information.”
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