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E-gaming and money laundering risks: a European overview

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The article examines the fraud and money laundering risks that arise in the regulated e-gaming sector and describes the kinds of measures taken by the sector itself against such risks. It establishes that the e-gaming sector uses a broad set of techniques to reduce the risks of fraud and money laundering and that, compared to methods of customer identification and monitoring in the off-line gaming and financial services sector, the scope for substantial abuse of e-gaming for laundering purposes is modest, both for those crimes that generate cash and for those that do not.

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  1. Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Build., King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WT, Wales, UK

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Professor of Criminology, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Econ.).

This is the written version of the presentation given by the author at the conference on “Gambling in the Internal Market—Balancing state and stakeholders’ interests”, organised by ERA in cooperation with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union on 15–16 June 2009 in Prague. Michael Levi is currently funded by a UK Economic and Social Research Council Professorial Fellowship (RES-051-27–0208). He is grateful to the ESRC and to the European Gaming and Betting Association for their support for this project.

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Levi, M. E-gaming and money laundering risks: a European overview. ERA Forum 10, 533–546 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-009-0143-2

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