The French National Gaming Authority (ANJ) has imposed a €75,000 ($87,700) financial penalty on a licensed online operator for substantial noncompliance with data obligations from 2022-2024.
The ANJ Sanctions Committee investigated the situation, which included repeated failures to preserve and send mandatory player and betting data in accordance with legal standards.
According to French law, licensed operators must preserve player account and gaming data in real time and make it always available to the ANJ. To provide successful monitoring, this data must be thorough and accurate.
The operator was found to have broken the rules twice. First, several million euros in player bets were excluded from the hardware archiving system. Second, by giving over 900,000 data records that were incorrect or defective.
These inadequacies hampered ANJ's ability to track player returns, detect problem gambling, and protect the integrity of gaming operations.
The violations violated Articles 31 and 38 of the statute of May 12, 2010, as well as Articles 29 and 30 of the decree of May 19, 2010.
The ANJ emphasised that such shortcomings jeopardise the sector's transparency and dependability, as well as impede attempts to detect fraud, money laundering, and excessive gambling.
This enforcement action is consistent with the ANJ's larger efforts to address excessive gambling in France, such as its recent evaluation of operator action plans, in which all but one casino had their plans approved.
