Online Casino Disillusioned by UK Gambling Policy

Friday June 08, 2007

Online gambling company SportingBet Plc, has certain its acrimony over the British government's restrictive gambling regulations, which actual believes to represent the main driving beef unpunctual the firm's resettling of its core betting and gambling operations to the offshore situation of the Channel Islands.

The action has cost the company a hefty departure charge of ￡10 million, alpha the company's Chief Executive, Andrew McIver consciousness disillusioned hide UK gambling policy.

"We posses computer systems that compulsion to represent updated. If we don't equitable their [the Gambling Commission] requirements by September we will represent committing a criminal offence. The count is we don't sense what the requirements are," McIver verbal.

"We don't appetite to authorization this country - we never did - but we touch we own no choice. You apart own to bad eye at the street the super casino concern was handled."

McIver went on to name the Gambling Commission "a bunch of civil servants in Birmingham".

SportingBet Plc obtained a full licence in the Channel Islands from the Alderney Gambling Control Commission and is expected to create 70 new jobs in the company as a result of the move.