Mandalorian Technologies and Betway have been found to have violated bonusing rules in Sweden and have received warning and penalty fees of SEK9m (£730k) and SEK5m (£406k) respectively.
Gaming companies with a Swedish licence are only permitted to offer their customers a single bonus. However, the country’s gambling authority found that customers were offered bonuses on repeated occasions leading to the warnings and penalty fees.
Betway provides games on the website betway.se with Mandalorian providing games on noaccountcasino.com and prankcasino.com. The authority stated: “As the Spelinspektionen already had indications at the beginning of the year that some gaming companies did not comply with the legislation, on February 19, the authority issued a letter to all licensees regarding bonus offers.
“After the letter, the Gaming Inspectorate noted some compliance from the licensees, but the assessment is that further measures must also be taken to achieve full compliance.
By bonus is meant a discount or similar financial incentive that is directly linked to the game.
“The main purpose of the new gambling regulation, which came into force on January 1, 2019, is to strengthen consumer protection and reduce the negative effects of gambling. The limitation on bonuses is contained in the law to reduce social and economic damage and problem playing. The Gaming Inspectorate will therefore continue to focus on supervision of this area
