New Jersey Division of Gaming Punishes Online Gambling Companies with a Fine

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has imposed a fine of $150,000 to online gambling companies. The fine comes after the companies failed to comply with regulatory measures as per the licensing .

The fine was imposed on Scientific Games’ SG Digital division, which has operations in New Jersey under the name, NYX Digital Gaming. The fine sums up to $110,000 for “deploying three games that were not the versions tested and approved,” and regulatory violations.

How They Were Applied

The William Hill Sports Book that is partnered up with Ocean Casino Resort and Tropicana Atlantic City and Monmouth Park Racetrack was fined for $26,500. The fine was imposed because the operator allowed 16 “self-excluded patrons to wager online.”

PokerStars suffered a $5000 fine for failing to “permanently record poker hand history data for 202 patrons for approximately two hours on April 30, the September complaint alleged.” The regulators in New Jersey went easy on PokerStars, since the company self-reported the discrepancy.

iGaming Cloud ended up with an $11,000 fine. The operator suffered three individual complaints. Firstly it was fined $2000 for deploying unapproved version of a game, $2000 for not furnishing the slot tournament data after a system crash and fixing the crash without notifying the gambling regulator and $7000 for allowing players which are ed in the self-exclusion registry to create online s and place new bets.

More about the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement

The DGE is on a mission to protect the public interest by maintaining a legitimate and viable casino gaming industry atmosphere and rid the industry of influences of organized crime. It assures honesty, good character and integrity of casino owners, operators, employees and vendors.

Source:

“New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Imposes $150k Fine on Online Gambling Companies”, Niji Narayan, europeangaming.eu, December 6, 2019.