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Australia’s financial intelligence agency has taken gambling giant Entain to the federal court, alleging it “deliberately obscured the identities” of high risk customers and failed to stop a “serious risk of criminal exploitation”, my colleague Henry Belot explains.

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre’s (Austrac) civil penalty proceedings allege that Entain, which runs the Ladbrokes and Neds betting brands, committed “serious and systemic non-compliance with Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws”.

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