{"id":130869,"date":"2025-09-09T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130869\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:34:18","slug":"sun-international-warns-that-weak-gambling-rules-risk-fuelling-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130869\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun International warns that weak gambling rules risk fuelling black market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>             CEO Ulrik Bengtsson says regulations need to protect consumers, ensure tax collection and allow firms to offer competitive products                <\/p>\n<p>08 September 2025 &#8211; 10:09 <\/p>\n<p>UPDATED 08 September 2025 &#8211; 17:39 <\/p>\n<p> by  Nompilo Goba<\/p>\n<p>Sun International CEO Ulrik Bengtsson has warned that weak regulation of online gambling could rapidly erode the state\u2019s tax base by driving punters to illegal offshore operators.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Business Day after the group\u2019s results on Monday, Bengtsson said licensed operators could  thrive only if regulation struck the right balance between protecting consumers, ensuring the state collects revenue and allowing companies to offer competitive products. If the system failed on of those fronts, he said, \u201cthe black market will grow and the tax base will erode very quickly\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEO Ulrik Bengtsson says regulations need to protect consumers, ensure tax collection and allow firms to offer competitive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-130869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}