Online casino operator Mr Green Ltd has been hit with a £3m penalty by UK gambling regulators for some truly boneheaded failures to verify the sources of customer funds.

On Thursday, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) announced that Mr Green (aka MRG) had agreed to pay £3m to the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms after the regulator uncovered “systemic failings in respect of both Mr Green’s social responsibility and AML [anti-money laundering] controls which affected a significant number of customers across its online casinos.”

The news didn’t come as any real surprise, having been flagged the day before by MRG’s parent company, UK bookmaker William Hill. The aforementioned failings were identified as part of a UKGC compliance assessment in July 2018, long before Hills officially took control of MRG last year.

The UKGC’s assessment started with an examination of three MRG customer accounts, which identified failures from both responsible gambling and AML perspectives. These failures weren’t isolated incidents, occurring over a four-year period ending November 16, 2018.