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Press Releases - September 2006
Arrest of bwin officials: The French Monopoly’s Swan Song?
18/09/2006: The European Betting Association (EBA) expresses its shock at the arrest in France of two senior officials of bwin, a licensed and regulated company in various European Union (EU) Member States, listed in the Vienna Stock Exchange since March 2000 and a member of the EBA. In an operation calculated to attain maximum publicity, the French Authorities acting at the behest of the State Monopoly, Francaise des Jeux (FdJ), arrested two senior executives of bwin on 15th September 2006. The French Authorities claim that bwin is illegal in France.
