The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs publishes the names and amounts of fines imposed on companies for breaking gambling regulations. The statement underlines that 30 gaming operators have been sanctioned " for serious or very serious infringements in the first half of 2023 ” and add that the DGOJ has blocked “ 14 websites and imposed fines ” for a total of more than 71 million euros . "
However, it must be said, as the list of sanctioning resolutions published by the DGOJ suggests, that in the vast majority these are online sites without authorization, that is, which operate without a license and are based in unknown parts of the globe.
According to Spanish operators, this is a strategy to deliberately denigrate the private gaming sector.
This is the official statement from the gaming management.
The General Directorate of Gambling Regulation closes 14 web portals and imposes fines for a total value of over 71 million euros
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has published the sanctions for serious or very serious infringements that it has firmly communicated to 30 operators in the betting and online gaming sector in Spain in the first half of 2023. The total fines amount to 71.433.000 million euros.
Of the 30 resolutions issued by the Directorate General for Regulation of Gambling (DGOJ), 15 concern very serious infringements. Of these, 14 resulted in the suspension of operators for a period of two years.
In accordance with the sanctions established in the Gambling Regulation Law (LRJ) for this type of infractions, most operators were punished with fines of 5 million euros each, which represents a total amount of over 70 million of Euro.
The DGOJ also detected serious violations against 15 other operators in the online betting and gaming sector during the first six months of 2023. In these cases the fines amount to a total of 1.333.000 euros.
Following the latest amendment to the LRJ, which establishes that serious and very serious administrative violations will be published on the DGOJ website, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has made public the sanctioning resolutions confirmed since July 2021.
Since then, the number of published sanctions amounts to 122 (19, in the second half of 2021; 73, in 2022; and 30 in the first half of 2023) and has imposed fines with a total value of over 252 million euros.
