Intralot and FIFA in cooperation agreement

Socrates S. Kokkalis, Intralot Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer, stated: “Our new agreement with EWS at Group level, is the continuation of the excellent cooperation we have established since 2008, when Intralot subsidiary ‘Betting Company’ joined EWS’ international network of partners. Transparency and integrity are Intralot Group’s core values and we are very proud to be part of a global alliance that actively safeguards them.”

Intralot’s expertise has been applied to betting markets around the world to make Intralot one of the world’s Sports betting operators in government regulated markets, handling the largest fixed odds sports book, trading billions of sales on bets annually. Since 1999, Intralot has been enabling and assisting licensed lotteries and operators in diverse regulated markets worldwide to offer full betting products or has operated its own licensed operation or participated in operator joint ventures. For the core sports betting business activity, Intralot has established a dedicated Betting Department, which is WLA, ISO 27001 and 9001 certified for its products, services and procedures and is currently engaged, either as technology partner or commercial operator, in 18 betting projects around the world.

Since 2006, Early Warning System GmbH (EWS) has been supporting FIFA in preventing, detecting and investigating match manipulation. EWS forms an integral component of FIFA’s Integrity Initiative and the aim is to support FIFA in the protection of the integrity of football and in the implementation of FIFA’s integrity program.