Online Gambling Does Not Corrupt Sports

April 7, 2009

According to a recent study by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission, online gambling does not have any effect on sports in terms of corruption. The study says that online casinos and sports online gambling have �not interfered with honest and uncorrupted results� for the sporting events. This of course goes against what many online gambling detractors have long said about the idea of online gambling mixing with sporting events.

What is very interesting is the timing of the study. Just last week the National Football League announced that they are hiring a full time lobbyist to fight against legalizing online gambling, and they say that corruption in the league would run amok if the UIGEA was overturned. However, the commission has spent the last eighteen months studying the effects of online gambling on sporting events as they had received reports that there would roughly fifty incidents where online gambling was allegedly linked to shady dealings in sporting events.

But the commission said that the reports were unsubstantiated in more than half of them. They say that they quickly ascertained that the number of reports that came in saying that they were online gambling related were simply not true. They say that they are still investigating the other reports, but they say that out of those there are really only about a handful that seems to be worth investigating.

They say that interestingly enough the number of suspicious reports were the same as before online gambling was legalized as there were reported after. European sports industry executives were concerned about the effect of online gambling on their events as well so they worked with the online gambling sites to ensure that there was nothing underhanded happening and it kept everything very secure.

 

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