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Eight out of 10 of Sweden’s top influencers promote illegal online casinos

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Top influencers on Twitch have been advertising casinos without proper license to operate in Sweden.

A majority of the top Swedish influencers on the video platform Twitch have been found promoting online casinos that do not have a license to operate in Sweden – a violation of the country’s Gambling Act.

In an investigation by Kulturnyheterna (‘Culture news’ at the Swedish national public television broadcaster SVT),