Betfair is under pressure to hand tens of thousands of pounds to the victim of a fraudster and gambling addict, after appearing to miss multiple opportunities to stop the “VIP” customer betting with stolen money. Andrew Morford, a former finance manager, was given a two-year suspended sentence on Wednesday, after admitting a £340,000 fraud against his former employer, carried out between May 2019 and February 2024. In sentencing remarks, Judge Silas Reid described Morford’s gambling addiction, which led to him losing more than £1m on Betfair’s platform, as a “very significant mitigation factor”. The betting exchange, part of the £28bn
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