HM Revenue and Customs officers have seized 86 illegal gaming machines from four amusement arcades across the UK.
Arcades in Brighton, Bognor Regis, Crawley and Tunbridge Wells were raided as well as two homes in Bognor.
The machine seizures, which contained almost £20,000 in cash, led to the arrest of a 45-year-old man in Bognor on suspicion of gaming duty fraud.
Revenue and Customs spokesman Bob Gaiger said: “We are investigating the non-payment of approximately £100,000 in amusement machine licence duty since July 2011. Gaming machine operators are legally required to pay the excise duty due on each machine and, if they don’t, then our officers step in. We only seize machines as the last resort when all other efforts to collect the duty have been exhausted.”
The man arrested has been released on bail until August while investigations continue.
