Gaming authority teams up with FIFA to fight manipulation of sports

The Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) has entered into a collaborative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FIFA's in-house agency on sport integrity, the FIFA Early Warning System GmbH (EWS), in the interests of protecting and maintaining the...

The Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA) has entered into a collaborative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FIFA's in-house agency on sport integrity, the FIFA Early Warning System GmbH (EWS), in the interests of protecting and maintaining the integrity of football and sports betting.

The aim of this MoU is to cooperate in order to avoid the manipulation of sports events and competitions by gamblers of malicious intent. The LGA in collaboration with its licensed operators shall provide the necessary assistance to ensure the effective workings of the EWS.

Such collaboration shall augment even further, the existing deterrents and shall
ensure that the possibility of achieving unfair winnings, (a phenomenon which is particularly present with respect to unregulated betting activities) remains shut out of the regulated markets, such as that regulated by the LGA, the authority said.

The EWS – LGA MOU shall bring together FIFA's early warning system, the LGA and its betting licensees to exchange betting-related information to assist the investigation of betting patterns or insider betting connected with sporting events and competitions.

The MOU was signed by Reuben Portanier, CEO of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority and Urs Scherrer, CEO of FIFA Early Warning System GmbH.

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