Nine arrested on suspicion of fraud
News item
Date: 6 October
2011
Police have executed warrants at ten addresses across
Merseyside and Glasgow and arrested nine men as part of an
investigation into suspicious betting activity.
For more information please visit Merseyside
Police website.
The Gambling Commission will not be making any further comment at
this time.
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Notes to editors
The Gambling Commission
- 1. The Gambling Commission (the Commission) regulates gambling
in the public interest alongside its co-regulators local licensing
authorities. It does so by keeping crime out of gambling, by
ensuring that gambling is conducted fairly and openly, and by
protecting children and vulnerable people from being harmed or
exploited by gambling. The Commission also provides independent
advice to government on gambling in Britain.
- 2. The Commission and local licensing authorities are
responsible for licensing and regulating all gambling in Great
Britain other than the National Lottery and spread betting, which
are the responsibility of the National Lottery Commission and the
Financial Services Authority (FSA) respectively.
- 3. See the Terms & Conditions section of our
website for information on legal advice.
- 4. The Commission's Sports Betting Intelligence Unit (SBIU) collects
information and develops intelligence about potentially corrupt
betting activity involving sport. The SBIU work closely with law
enforcement agencies and sports governing bodies in protecting
sport from corruption.
- 5. The Commission's
Betting integrity decision making framework - December 2010 sets out the
process, in the context of betting integrity, from when we first
receive a piece of information through to when a case is
closed.
Further information
- Further information is available from the Commission's website.
Gambling Commission: John Travers on (0121) 230 6700 or communications@gamblingcommission.gov.uk.