£10 Million Unibet Fine Brings Total UKGC Fines to Over £19m in 2025

We reveal a £10 million Unibet fine issued to Platinum Gaming Ltd, bringing the regulator’s total financial penalties to over £19 million in 2025.

Total fines issued by the UK Gambling Commission in 2025 have more than doubled following stiff punishment handed out to a company that operates one of the UK’s leading online casinos and sportsbooks.

Platinum Gaming, which operates Unibet and is a subsidiary of the Kindred Group, was handed a £10 million fine after an investigation by the regulator revealed Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and social responsibility failings.

The operator is reported to have failed to spot the high-risk activity of several customers and even allowed owners of accounts previously banned for potential connections to money laundering to create new ones.

NetBet and Videoslots Fined

That huge penalty, alongside £650,000 fines recently issued to both Videoslots Limited and NetBet Enterprises for similar failings, has brought the total amount of financial penalties issued by the UKGC in 2025 to over £19 million.

That’s more than double the £7.5m in UKGC fines for the year that we reported on at the start of October, and is in the top five largest penalties ever handed out by the regulator.

Source: The UKGC ensures all of its disciplinary actions are transparent and publiclly available on its Enforcement Action Page, which is where we found all the information for this news piece.

What Prompted the £10 Million UKGC Fine for Platinum Gaming (Unibet)?

The question is, why is the fine so big? Well, it seems the company has yet to learn sufficiently from previous failures that led to its first financial penalty of £2.9m in 2023.

Following an investigation by the UKGC, Platinum Gaming has again been found to fall foul of:

• Multiple instances of social responsibility failures, such as failing to identify customers at risk of gambling harm and not interacting with others who lost significant amounts of players in a short space of time.

• Numerous instances of anti-money-laundering failures, including allowing customers who had previously been blocked due to money laundering or terrorist funding concerns to open new accounts.

Specific Failings of Platinum Gaming Limited

The previous fine would have played a part in the UKGC’s decision to issue such a large fine to Platinum Gaming, as it highlights the operator’s failure to make adequate improvements to ensure it fully complies with the regulator’s anti-money laundering and safer gambling policies, procedures and controls. However, the severity and number of failings discovered by the investigation are the primary reasons.

According to the UK Gambling Commission, serious social responsibility failures included:

• Failing to identify a customer clearly at risk of harm who lost £5,000 within the first day of a new account. The same person was able to lose over £16,000 across three months without being detected.

• Not speaking with a customer who hit their self-set monthly loss limits on half a dozen occasions across nine months of losses totaling over £31,000.

• Failing to identify another player who was able to exceed their self-set £2,500 loss limit within just a quarter of an hour after registering a gambling account.

On top of the £10 million fine, Platinum Gaming Limited has also received a warning from the UK Gambling Commission and will also face a third-party audit to make sure it is taking the steps to effectively comply with the regulators’ AML and safer gambling policies moving forward.

Other recent UKGC fines: Although much smaller in comparison, the commission has also handed out financial penalties to two other UK gambling operators recently. Both NetBet Enterprises and Videoslots Limited have been issued separate £650,000 fines. Again, these sanctions were implemented due to both companies due to Anti-Money Laundering and social responsibility failures.