Hard Rock Ottawa Fined $172k For Violating Ontario Gaming Law
Hard John Rock Canadian capital has been fined more than $172k for 36 alleged violations of Ontario gaming law. The violations were flagged during a recent scrutinize of its Rideau Carleton Casino by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).
The no-nos include flunk to implement anti-money laundering (AML) preparation for stave or passable tribute for gaming systems from security department vulnerabilities, both are which are regulatory requirements inwards the Canadian province.
According to AGCO, Hard John Rock Ottawa — which is owned by Hard Rock International and Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation — also provided marketing materials to self-excluded individuals, failed to defend independent compliance inadvertence and failed to address “matters of concern” raised by intragroup auditors.
“These penalties are intended to ride the improvements needful at the Rideau Carleton Casino,” AGCO CEO Tom Mungham said in a pressing release. “We will live carefully monitoring the casino’s activities to ensure these significant inspect findings are addressed.”
Hard Rock Responds
The Rideau Carleton Casino offers slots and electronic and live-action table games, inward addition to a poker way and live horse tackle racing. The attribute is currently beingness redeveloped in partnership with Hard Rock Ottawa.
Hard John Rock Ottawa stock-still has a scorecard to play, if it chooses to, with an appeal to an main(a) adjudicatory radical called the License Appeal Tribunal.
However, Rideau Carleton GM Helen of Troy MacMillan sounded to a greater extent contrite than defensive attitude when she told CTV News Ottawa that the “majority of issues” had already been chop-chop and “aggressively” addressed.
She also distressed that the casino “takes this matter extremely seriously” and that efforts to sportsmanlike up its human activity experience included some “change inwards personnel.”
AGCO has stepped upwardly its regularization enforcement lately, fining DraftKings Canada, an online sportsbook, to a greater extent than $75k for skirting its advertising rules past promoting odds as boosters on its website during the NHL playoffs.
Hard Rock Keep Expanding
In other news, Hard John Rock continues to spread out its gambling casino and resort hotel empire. The company of late announced that they’re looking to finance and deal a unexampled gambling casino inwards Kenosha, Wisc.
Kenosha Landco Co. LLC, a companionship share-out an speech with Hard Rock International, late agreed to make up up to $100,000 for an alternative to purchase 60 acres from the Village of Bristol, close Kenosha, for $15 million.
Among its other recent developments, the Seminole Tribe, which owns or operates to a greater extent than a dozen US and Canadian Hard Rock casinos. It acquired the Mirage Las Vegas last December and opened the Hard John Rock Bristol, Virginia’s firstly casino, on July 8, 2022.
It is also building casinos inward Bakersfield, Calif., Rockford, Ill., and others inwards Jamaica and Athens, Greece