The firm that maintains Australia’s gambling self-exclusion register has rejected conflict of interest concerns over a director’s roles with major wagering industry businesses, as the company urgently seeks cash to stay afloat amid mounting debt and a missed ATO tax bill.
Dataworks, which the Australian government has paid to maintain its BetStop register of problem gamblers since mid-2023, has defended the position of its director Ian Penrose, who is simultaneously a senior independent director of Playtech, a $1.38 billion UK-based gambling tech giant that sells software to operators of online casinos…