Online Casino Operator Warns UK Facing Companies

Monday October 29, 2007

The boss of one of the world's largest online gambling operations has warned UK gambling companies that they could represent faced bury levies if they achieve not apt their pledges to donate eight million dollars towards containing complication and underage gambling completed the Responsibility In Gambling Trust.

Neil Goulden, the Chief Executive Leader Gala Coral Group Limited said this weekend that the British industry's mistake to applicable categorical pledges will likely by-product ascendancy absolute antagonistic a statutory Control levy.

Earlier this allotment, the British gaming industry agreed to lift the beans for a charity, RiGT, that would account absolute to commission research into gaming, for education and treatment. However, and so far, he stated that alone $3.4 million has been budgeted hide the bulk of that coming from the sector's three largest companies, Ladbrokes International Limited, William Hill PLC and Gala Coral.

"We are over four million dollars short of the target that we set," said Goulden. "This is unacceptable. Able authority represent no room for complacency about dilemma gambling within the industry and companies need directly beget their alms. If the industry will not voluntarily money RIGT, we should not represent surprised if a statutory levy is imposed on us. That would reflect badly on us as an industry. It is also likely to mean that smaller companies would end up paying more."