{"id":260,"date":"2025-06-03T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:14:21","slug":"pokerstars-fined-728k-in-sweden-after-failing-to-quickly-check-source-high-rollers-source-of-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.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. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectingfrance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}