In its 105-page report, Sweden’s National Audit Office raised key points about the gambling regulator’s recent supervisory work, highlighting potential areas of improvement in the cooperation between the government and the authority.
The audit, which was commissioned in late 2024, reached the conclusion that the control of the Swedish gambling market has not fully met the expectations set out by the Riksdag (Parliament) and the government in the 2019 re-regulation of the market.
One of the report’s key takeaways is that Spelinspektionen has failed to carry out a sufficient number of inspections, individual checks of operators were not based on well-founded risk analysis, and there hasn’t been enough follow-ups to determine whether deficiencies have been resolved.
In this context, the Audit Office has rec..
