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Spelinspektionen extends anti-money-laundering rules to land-based casinos

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Sweden’s Spelinspektionen has changed its anti-money-laundering rules to remove exemptions for commercial land-based casinos, with the changes taking effect on 1 September 2026. Licensees will face customer due diligence, risk assessment, internal procedure and control requirements, and the exemption from registering gambling agents has also been removed.

Land-based casino licensees will have to meet the same stated anti-money-laundering and agent-registration requirements from September 2026.

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Greece’s HGC outlines anti-money-laundering duties for gambling businesses

Greece’s Hellenic Gaming Commission (HGC) describes its risk-based anti-money-laundering oversight of gambling businesses and the measures those businesses must apply. These include customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, staff training, record-keeping and reporting suspicious transactions to the competent authorities.

Greece's Hellenic Gaming Commission (HGC) bases its anti-money-laundering supervision of gambling on a risk-based approach. The obliged entities are those organising or conducting gambling in Greece, including the physical network, and casino businesses. They must identify, assess and manage the money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks linked to their activity.

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