The biggest online gambling fines: 280 penalties worth €1.14 billion

The online gambling regulators, prosecutors and courts we track have imposed 280 monetary penalties on casino and betting companies in our data (2017–2026), worth about €1.14 billion in total. The largest is GBP 585,000,000 against Entain plc (Crown Prosecution Service / HMRC (UK DPA), 2023), a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with UK prosecutors rather than a regulator fine. Next come AUD 45,000,000 against Tab Ltd, Tabcorp Holdings Ltd, Tabcorp Wagering (Vic) Pty Ltd (AUSTRAC (Australia), 2017) and EUR 24,846,000 against Novatech Solutions N.V. (Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands), 2025). Crown Prosecution Service / HMRC (UK DPA) accounts for the most money (about €684 million in 1 fine). The most-fined owner group by value is Entain plc: 9 fines worth about €715 million. Another 137 actions in our data carried no fine. These numbers cover online gambling only: fines against land-based casinos are out of scope.

Euro amounts are approximate: each fine is converted with one fixed table of rounded exchange rates (see method below), not the rate on the day of the fine. Data as of 26 Oct 2026.

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The 25 biggest online gambling fines

Totals by regulator and court

The 15 most-fined owner groups

By approximate euro value. A group's line holds the fines of every company it owns today, except fines from before it bought a company: those stay with the company that was fined. 25 fines (about €25.4 million) hit companies whose owner we have not identified; they are not in this table.

Fines by year

Bar length = approximate euro value of the year's fines. Big years are usually one or two record cases.

Method

• What counts as a fine: a regulator, prosecutor or court action against a casino or betting company with a published money amount: fines, civil penalties, regulatory settlements and forfeited penalty payments. Each row links to the official notice or, where none is public, to the press report we used.
• What does not: cease-and-desist letters, warnings and remarks, orders and bans, licence suspensions and revocations, lawsuits and sanctions listings. They are listed on the regulator pages as actions with "no fine" and never added to a total. Fines whose amount the regulator did not publish are also left out of totals.
• Settlements are labelled: regulatory settlements (money paid instead of a formal penalty) carry a "Settlement" label, and the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) carries a "DPA" label: it was agreed with UK prosecutors in a criminal case, not imposed by a gambling regulator.
• Owner groups: a fine counts for the group that owns the fined company today. A fine from before a takeover stays with the company that was fined (for example, a Kindred fine from before the FDJ United takeover counts for Kindred, not FDJ United). Fines against companies whose owner is not identified are in the totals but not in the owner-group table.
• Currency: amounts are shown in the original currency. Euro values use one fixed table of rounded rates, applied to every fine whatever its date: 1 GBP = €1.17 · 1 USD = €0.92 · 1 SEK = €0.088 · 1 DKK = €0.134 · 1 NOK = €0.086 · 1 CAD = €0.67 · 1 PLN = €0.23 · 1 CHF = €1.05 · 1 RON = €0.2 · 1 HUF = €0.0025 · 1 CZK = €0.04 · 1 UAH = €0.022 · 1 AUD = €0.6. Data as of 2026-10-26. Euro figures are for ranking and scale only; quote the original amount.
• Scope: online gambling only: the regulators that license online casinos and betting sites, and prosecutors and courts acting against online gambling and betting operators. Fines against land-based casinos are out of scope and not in any total on this page. When a group in our data also runs land-based venues, only actions against its online or betting business are listed; the reason column says what each fine was for.
• Coverage: our data holds 417 actions from the regulators and courts we track, collected from official registers and notices. It is not every gambling fine ever issued: many regulators are not tracked.
• One case, several rows: a regulator sometimes fines several companies of one group in one case. We keep one row per company that was fined, so a record package can appear as two or more rows (for example the UK Gambling Commission's 2023 William Hill package: the online companies' parts are separate rows, and the part for the retail betting shops is out of scope). Regulator fines pages name the package total next to the largest row.

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Fines by regulator

Published 19 Oct 2026; data checked 26 Oct 2026. How we check facts.