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Swedish Court Acquits Bot Ring. Defendants found not guilty of fraud

The use of bots in online poker has been a source of huge and often frenzied discussion recently, and a ruling by the Swedish Court of Appeals will only add to the furore, as they have overturned a lower court’s decision that it does not constitute fraud!

Svenska Spel, the state-owned gaming company, had sued five players for serious fraud after discovering that they had used bots (poker robots) against 25,300 separate players early in 2013.

After reporting the players to the local police, and suspending 14 accounts in total, they sought redress in the District Court – having paid out almost $450,000 to the players affected by the cheating.

However their claim for damages valued at $300,000 ended unsatisfactorily. The court handed down sentences of probation to the five defendants, who were found guilty of the lesser offence of aggravated fraud.