SkillOnNet and NGG Nordic lose penalty appeals
A Swedish court of appeal has rejected attempts by SkillOnNet and NGG Nordic to overturn prior rulings regarding illicit bonuses
A Swedish courtroom of invoke has rejected attempts past SkillOnNet and NGG Nordic to tip over prior rulings regarding illicit bonuses.
In an update, the Swedish Gambling Authority (SGA) revealed that sanctions which it had brought against both operators inward 2019 get been upheld, despite some small changes.
SkillOnNet, an online casino operator, and NGG Nordic, a Betsson subsidiary, faced fines for incentive offerings that violated the country’s Gaming Act. But they sought to setback the regulator’s decisions and brought their cases before Sweden’s Administrative Court.
However, neither operator’s appeal was whole successful. While SkillOnNet’s endeavour was rejected outright, NGG Nordic saw its penalty fee decreased from SEK 19m ($2m) to SEK 14m.
According to the regulator, the Administrative Court “made a partly different assessment than the Swedish Gambling Authority regarding the demand for a verbatim connexion to the game”, but the SGA’s pilot determination was mostly upheld.
This prompted both companies to launch further appeals, but these too experience at present been rejected. As a result, both SkillOnNet and NGG Nordic must pay their respective SEK 14m fines.
“The homage of invoke at present rejects the II companies’ appeals and agrees with the Administrative Court’s rulings,” register a financial statement from the SGA.
“In the decisions, the judicature of invoke emphasises, among other things, that the fillip provision is sufficiently readable to follow applied and that violations of the bonus supply are in principle, serious.”