The failure to apply a 24-hour delay between receiving a request for increased credit and granting it led to a customer being allowed to immediately place a £100,000 bet when his credit limit had been set at £70,000. William Hill fined £6.2m by Gambling Commissionįailing to identify customers at risk of harm led to yet another person losing £14,902 in 70 minutes, while one customer lost £54,252 in four weeks without the operator seeking any evidence of income or carrying out adequate checks. “However, because the operator immediately recognised their failings and worked with us to swiftly implement improvements, we instead opted for the largest enforcement payment in our history.”

Gambling Commission chief executive Andrew Rhodes said: “When we launched this investigation the failings we uncovered were so widespread and alarming serious consideration was given to licence suspension. William Hill Organisation Limited, which operates 1,344 gambling premises across Britain, will pay £3 million. Mr Green Limited, which runs, will pay £3.7 million WHG (International) Limited, which runs, will pay £12.5 million Social responsibility failures at William Hill businesses included allowing one customer to open a new account and spend £23,000 in 20 minutes, allowing another to open an account and spend £18,000 in 24 hours and a third able to spend £32,500 over two days – all without any checks. The “settlement” is the largest in the Gambling Commission’s history. Three gambling businesses owned by William Hill will pay a total of £19.2 million for “widespread and alarming” social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures. Paul Brand has the latest on t hree gambling firms owned by William Hill being hit with £19.2m in fines for failing to protect consumers and weak anti-money laundering controls

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