Swedish gambling company LeoVegas has avoided a fine in excess of $850,000 after a court ruled in its favor on a responsible gambling case.
The Administrative Court in Linköping found a March 2025 ruling, which was handed down for a series of alleged breaches of Sweden’s Gambling Act duty of care provisions, found the evidence to be unambiguous.
Responsible gambling procedures at centre of dispute
Swedish regulator Spelinspektionen said its investigation focused on Roar Vegas’ responsible gambling controls during the first quarter of 2024. The review examined 12 customer accounts, including the operator’s highest-loss players in the 18-24 and 25-and-over age groups.
The regulator highlighted three customers who had monthly deposit limits ranging from SEK100,000 to SEK300,000 and displayed signs of potentially harmful gambling behavior, including rapid deposits, heavy losses and extended playing sessions.
According to Spelinspektionen, Roar Vegas failed to provide adequate support to those customers. While the authority acknowledged that the operator later introduced measures that reduced gambling activity, it said the interventions came too late and did not go far enough.
The regulator concluded that the shortcomings amounted to a serious breach of Sweden’s duty-of-care requirements and issued a formal warning alongside an administrative fine of SEK8 million.
The overturned Swedish penalty is not the first time LeoVegashas faced regulatory scrutiny over player protection measures. In 2022, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) fined the operator £1.3 million for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failings, including inadequate interventions with at-risk customers. The Dutch Gambling Authority (KSA) also imposed a €500,000 fine in 2025, alleging LeoVegas failed to act quickly enough when players showed signs of excessive gambling. LeoVegas has also faced earlier sanctions in the UK and Sweden over compliance and customer protection shortcomings.
LeoVegas among companies under spotlight by Swedish Gambling Authority
Elsewhere in Sweden, the Spelinspektionen recently said it will carry out supervisory checks on bet365, LeoVegas, Unibet and 10bet over compliance with technical gambling requirements.
The regulator said the review will focus on whether the operators meet standards set out in Sweden’s Gambling Act, including system compliance rules and requirements for independent testing and certification by EU-accredited bodies. It also said licences must hold valid and updated certificates renewed at least every 12 months.
Spelinspektionen said there is no indication of wrongdoing by the companies, but noted the operators are among the largest and were part of the first wave of licences issued when Sweden opened its regulated market in 2019.
The announcement comes as the regulator continues multiple compliance investigations, including recent enforcement actions against operators such as Casumo parent Oddit Limited and unlicensed provider Rust Clash Entertainment.
711 Group issued fine in The Netherlands
Meanwhile, Dutch online gambling operator 711 Group has been fined €886,000 for failing to meet player protection obligations, the country’s gambling regulator said.
The KSAsaid the penalty covers 711.nl’s operations between February 2022 and June 2024, during which it found the company did not adequately protect customers showing signs of high losses and excessive play.
An investigation into 10 player accounts identified patterns of heavy losses, frequent gambling and late-night activity. The regulator said 711 failed to properly assess player behaviour or intervene in a timely manner.
KSA chair Michel Groothuizen said the regulator has stepped up oversight of duty-of-care rules as part of a broader crackdown on operators, with recent enforcement actions also taken against firms including BetCity, Unibet, LeoVegas, Vbet, ComeOn and bet365.
In a statement, he said: “We have observed that not all providers implemented their duty of care equally well from the opening of the market. We have therefore conducted additional investigations, which are now resulting in various duty of care fines. At the same time, we have further tightened the requirements regarding the duty of care to prevent excesses such as those we are seeing here in the future.”
