{"id":258,"date":"2025-06-03T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:35:35","slug":"pokerstars-fined-728k-in-sweden-after-failing-to-quickly-check-source-high-rollers-source-of-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/pokerstars-fined-728k-in-sweden-after-failing-to-quickly-check-source-high-rollers-source-of-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"PokerStars Fined $728k in Sweden After Failing to Quickly Check Source High Rollers\u2019 Source of Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/pokerstars-fined-728k-in-sweden-after-failing-to-quickly-check-source-high-rollers-source-of-funds\/\">PokerStars Fined $728k in Sweden After Failing to Quickly Check Source High Rollers\u2019 Source of Funds<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>PokerStars is in hot water in Sweden after it wasn\u2019t quick enough in conducting source of funds checks on high rollers, which violated the country\u2019s anti-money laundering (AML) laws. <\/p>\n<p>The Flutter Entertainment-owned brand will pay a SEK 7m ($728,199) fine and received an official warning from Sweden\u2019s gambling regulator, Spelinspektionen, for its transgressions.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation highlighted the slow checks on ten big spenders in 2023 and their insufficient accuracy in determining the users\u2019 behavior in relation to their age bracket.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>risk limits were also deemed to be too high to properly prevent fraud<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The operator\u2019s risk limits were also deemed to be too high to properly prevent fraud, with single transactions only sparking additional checks if they were $20,000 or $40,000 for combined net deposits.<\/p>\n<p>While PokerStars fought back on certain aspects of the judgment, Spelinspektionen disagreed that its AML systems were sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/pokerstars-fined-728k-in-sweden-after-failing-to-quickly-check-source-high-rollers-source-of-funds\/\">PokerStars Fined $728k in Sweden After Failing to Quickly Check Source High Rollers\u2019 Source of Funds<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post PokerStars Fined $728k in Sweden After Failing to Quickly Check Source High Rollers\u2019 Source of Funds appeared first on Vegas Slots Online News. PokerStars is in hot water in Sweden after it wasn\u2019t quick enough in conducting source of funds checks on high rollers, which violated the country\u2019s anti-money laundering (AML) laws. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zomtivak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}