Swedish Gambling Authority creates anti-match fixing council
Lawyer Katarina Abrahamsson recruited as first anti-match-fixing coordinator
Swedish regulator Lotteriinspektionen has announced the creation of its first anti-match-fixing council ahead of the re-regulation of the Swedish market in 2019.
Katarina Abrahamsson has been appointed as the regulator’s first anti-match-fixing coordinator and will be tasked with promoting strategic and operational cooperation to counter match-fixing.
Abrahamsson current works as a lawyer for Lotteriinspektionen and has previously worked as a national and international coordinator for the Energy Market Inspectorate.
Patrik Gustavsson, operations manager for Lotteriinspektionen, said: “Katarina has extensive experience from previously coordinating issues between authorities, organizations, but also from working both nationally and internationally with regulation and coordination issues.
“This experience is very important in the work done by the Spelinspektionen as of January 1, 2019, with regard to the work against match-fixing.”
According to the regulator, members of the anti-match-fixing council, which has yet to be confirmed will consist of individuals from the public prosecutor’s office, the police and members of the ministries of finance and social affairs. Further members from sports federations, trade organisations representing license holders will be added by Lotteriinspecktionen at a later date.
In addition to confirming the new council, the regulator has unveiled the logos to be used by licensed Swedish operators to advertise the Spelpaus.se self-exclusion software.
Under the new re-regulated regime operators are required to provide links to the self-exclusion, time/deposit limits and gambling risk analysis sections of the Spelpaus.se website.
According to guidance notes from the regulator logos should be “clearly visible, placed in a locked field at the top of the licensee’s websites, mobile applications and the like, which means that the logos will be visible even if user scrolls down the page.”
The new regime comes into force from January 2019.