Corporate crime in sport: £615 million penalty imposed on a sports gaming company for failing to prevent bribery
In our previous LawInSport article1, Jim Sturman KC and I analysed how the recalibration of the corporate criminal attribution test, enacted in the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the 2023 Act), could impact on the world of sport.
The potential for that impact has since been brought into sharp focus by a recent case2 linked directly to the sports industry, which resulted in Entain plc (Entain), a sports gaming business, paying a £615 million financial penalty.
To update on this development, this article will review and analyse:
- The Entain case;
- What the position might have been, had the 2023 Act been in force; and
- Pointers for the future.
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Jeremy Summers
In addition to being a leading business crime lawyer, Jeremy also heads the sports team at Osborne Clarke where he has been a partner since 2015.
