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Betfair on the front foot over sport gambling cheats
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21 August 2011
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the yohaig code leader of the global Olympic motion, Jacques Rogge, has called match-fixing and corruption as big a threat to sporting integrity as doping.

Unfortunately, sporting scandal and tried crooked betting coups have all too often gone together, as current football match-fixing occasions in Finland and South Korea have shown.

Those events, like last year's furore surrounding 3 Pakistan cricketers - consequently given restrictions - and the bowling of "no balls" versus England at Lords, were linked to unlawful gambling rings.

But for genuine wagering companies, whether conventional High Street outlets or more current online betting organisations, these events all tend to be lumped together in the public's mind under the one heading of "gambling".

"Much of what we have seen has been from the unlawful Asian markets - there is a substantial distinction between them and ourselves," states a senior investigator at online gaming company Betfair.

"But it is everything about understandings, and people simply see the headings about betting without looking much deeper."

It is to avoid such tarnished associations with crooked gambling rings that firms such as Betfair go to great lengths to monitor the wagering patterns on its site.

'Prevent, detect, examine'

The firm is the world's significant wagering exchange - a set-up that permits bettors to wager on sporting events at odds set by other bettors.

Betfair makes its money by taking a commission from winning bets.

The firm's headquarters neglects the River Thames at Hammersmith, west London, and houses Betfair's corporate, technical, marketing, and user-experience groups.

But probably the most essential is the integrity group of 8 people, which utilizes computer and analytical tools to avoid criminal activity being carried out in connection with sport and gambling, and to keep wrongdoers off the Betfair site.

"Our job is to avoid, detect, and examine," says the Betfair investigator, or "stability analyst", who asks not to be named because of his work in handling criminal activity.

"We work closely with the cops and other law-enforcement agencies, gambling regulators, sports bodies, and organisations which promote accountable betting."

The difficulties dealing with Betfair range from prospective match-fixing driven by unlawful betting rings, to money-laundering, to individuals using taken or cloned charge card to wager with, to sportspeople using details.

Betfair hosts chances on more than 40 sports and at any time there can be as lots of as 11,600 wagering markets on the site.
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Customers sign terms which allows Betfair to check closely their background and, in specific suspicious scenarios, to pass their details on to the relevant sporting or legal authorities.

In addition it has likewise established an early-warning computer system program called BetMon, which governing bodies can utilize to view betting patterns (however not customer details) on the Betfair site for their sports.

And Betfair prides itself on its audit path to help the cops or sports authorities in any investigation.
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"Records are kept of each login and bet, event, choice, stake, odds, earnings - if any - and method of bet, along with the IP address of the computer system utilized to make the bet," says the Betfair expert.

"Call are likewise recorded, too, for possible future reference."

Indeed, Betfair is proud of its ability to spot suspicious betting patterns - in one of the most high-profile cases it notoriously refused to settle wagers on a tennis match including Russian player Nikolay Davydenko in 2007.

The Russian retired from a video game in the Poland Open, and this promotion code followed "irregular" wagering patterns on his match.

The company, which has arrangements with a variety of sporting bodies, including the ATP and other tennis authorities - to whom it reported it in the Davydenko case.

The player was consequently cleared of match-fixing by the ATP.

Sporting guidance

Often criminal gambling rings target players or match authorities in an effort to manufacture the desired result of a sporting fixture.

Which is where people such as Simon Taylor, who has been the General Secretary of the Professional Players Federation (PPF) in the UK since 2006, can be found in.

He is likewise is head of policy at EU Athletes, the European federation of gamer associations.

In 2010, the PPF signed an arrangement with the Remote Gambling Association and its members, including Betfair, to develop and provide education programmes to gamers on sports betting and the prospective pitfalls.

this promotion code year the program will be delivered in individual to 5,500 sportsmen and ladies in the UK.

"Our research study showed that 40% of footballers did not know the rules about not betting on competitions they were included in," he says, pointing out the significance of gamer details.

Mr Taylor said that frequently those caught up in prohibited betting pressures were young athletes, particularly footballers, who could come under pressure from bad guys who befriend them.

Those at the other end of their careers are also a potential danger.

"You might have a veteran looking for one last pay day, but we point out that you will never ever get a task later on as a coach or in sporting PR. That is not going to occur if your name is ruined," says Mr Taylor.

His organisation also offers recommendations and support for sportsmen and women who might suffer from issue betting.

'Memorandums of understanding'

Eyebrows were raised amongst numerous commentators and market figures in March when Betfair stated it would be partially heading offshore.

By moving its gambling licence from the UK to Gibraltar the firm was no longer bound by any statutory obligation to notify Britain's Gambling Commission of any suspicious wagering.

However, Betfair says that not only is it regulated by the Gibraltar authorities, it likewise has memorandums of understanding (MU) with many sporting bodies to notify them of suspicious activity.

this promotion code consists of Mr Rogge's International Olympic Committee (IOC), which signed up before the Beijing 2008 Games and can request the identities of account holders who wager suspiciously.

"Our UK licence required us to notify any suspicious details to the Gambling Commission," says Betfair's Susannah Gill.

"Technically we do not have to that anymore, but we will continue to do this promotion code. That will continue forever.

"We understood back in the early days that details sharing is central to sports stability."

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