Former Entain chair Lee Feldman, former finance director Richard Cooper, former legal director Robert Hoskin, and former director James Humberstone are also mentioned. They show up with six other people connected to third-party service providers, such as payment processors that managed Headlong's gambling transactions.
The allegations concern the provision of gaming services on Turkey's black market between 2011 and 2018, when Entain operated Sportingbet's Turkish-facing business through a subsidiary known as Headlong Ltd. under the name GVC Holdings.
Former Entain chair Lee Feldman, former finance director Richard Cooper, former legal director Robert Hoskin, and former director James Humberstone are also mentioned. They show up with six other people connected to third-party service providers, such as payment processors that managed Headlong's gambling transactions.
According to the CPS, charges include conspiracy to bribe, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent trading, evading income tax, defrauding public revenue, acting as an undischarged bankrupt while a company director, and perverting the course of justice.
Entain and MGM Resorts jointly own BetMGM and several of Europe's top online gaming businesses.
In November 2019, Headlong's third-party suppliers were the subject of a criminal investigation by HMRC, the UK tax authority.
By July 2020, prosecutors were investigating whether GVC/Entain had failed to stop corrupt conduct in Headlong's operations as part of the UK Bribery Act.
Investigators found evidence of bribery and covert payment networks connected to Headlong's Turkish-facing Sportingbet operation, according to the final Deferred Prosecution Agreement, which was authorized in 2023.
As a result, Entain agreed to pay one of the largest fines in UK corporate history—more than £585 million ($790 million) in penalties and settlements.
“This has been a complex and international investigation,” Richard Las, the director of HMRC’s fraud investigation service, said in a statement Thursday. “These are serious charges that relate to conspiracy to defraud, bribery, cheating the public revenue, evasion of income tax and perverting the course of justice among others.”
In December 2017, GVC sold Headlong for free in preparation for its planned acquisition of Ladbrokes-Coral, a British legacy betting company. In order to avoid giving regulators a reason to reject the Ladbrokes purchase, the corporation was keen to get rid of any black market operations.
In the UK, criminal prosecutions of former senior executives of FTSE 100 companies are uncommon. However, other UK-based businesses that have previously worked with "grey" or "black" markets—regions where gaming is prohibited or unregulated but nonetheless operates—may face more severe consequences as a result of this case. Up until now, UK authorities have generally handled these businesses lightly.
Alexander and Feldman filed a lawsuit against Entain and its legal firm Addleshaw Goddard in February, alleging that the DPA procedure unlawfully disclosed private material to authorities.
"The company has not been charged and none of the individuals charged are currently employed by the company or its group," an Entain representative stated. In December 2023, the company and the CPS signed a deferred prosecution agreement that concluded the HMRC inquiry insofar as it involved the company and its group, provided that its terms were followed.
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