Three Rank Group land-based operators — Grosvenor Casinos Limited, Grosvenor Casinos (GC) Limited and Gaming Group Limited — agreed to pay £5,012,261 ($6.6m) to the UK Treasury following a Gambling Commission review. The regulator found systemic failures in anti-money laundering and safer-gambling controls across 51 casinos.
The inspection took place in June 2025. The Commission found that the companies failed to update AML policies in line with changes to UK rules introduced in 2020. As a result, some customers were not classified as higher risk. Casino managers made decisions without clear procedures and did not verify the source of large sums. Cryptocurrency posed a separate problem: staff treated deposits converted to sterling as legitimate without checking the origin of funds. Enhanced due diligence was not conducted even where the group's own rules required it — for students from high-risk countries or customers with unusual betting patterns, for example.
Safer-gambling protections also failed. One customer lost around £50,000 without any intervention. Another won £260,000, then lost £250,000 over 12 days with no response. A third lost £25,000 before staff noticed. The Commission recorded multiple minor interactions without any assessment of their effect, and delays in applying limits or blocking cards.
Sue Young, executive director of the Gambling Commission, said AML and responsible-gambling risks are equally alive for land-based and online operators. Rank Group admitted the breaches and has already implemented corrective measures, which were taken into account when calculating the settlement. The company also agreed to an independent audit of its AML and safer-gambling policies.
