AGCO Moves to Suspend PointsBet Canada’s License for Failure to Report Suspicious Betting

Ontario’s gaming regulator, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), is moving towards a suspension for sports betting operator PointsBet Canada. 

In a press release, AGCO confirmed that it has proposed suspending PointsBet Canada’s iGaming license for five days, alleging that it failed to detect and report suspicious betting linked to the NBA’s Jontay Porter scandal. 

The regulator cited what it called systematic failures at the company in monitoring and reporting patterns in a case that later became the heart of a major US criminal investigation involving the FBI.

In early 2024, after allegations of insider betting involving Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter surfaced, the AGCO instructed all regulated Ontario sports betting operators to confirm whether they had accepted bets on Porter and whether any suspicious activity had been identified and reported.

According to the regulator, PointsBet initially advised after a delay that it had not offered such bets. 

However, in October 2025, following the public release of a US Department of Justice indictment outlining a broader insider betting scheme, the AGCO required operators to reconfirm whether suspicious betting had occurred on Porter-related markets.

It was then that PointsBet revealed it had offered betting on Porter during the relevant games. After reviewing wagering data, AGCO said it confirmed indications of suspicious betting central to the 2024 scheme and concluded those wagers should have been detected and reported at the time. 

In a statement on the suspension, the Chief Executive Officer at AGCO, Dr. Karin Schnarr, said that the regulator took these failings extremely seriously.  

“Safeguarding the integrity of sports and Ontario’s sports betting market is a top priority for the AGCO. We require all operators to have robust systems and comprehensive staff training in place to reliably detect and report suspicious activity,” she said. 

In response, PointsBet Canada said the initial inaccurate response was due to human error during an organizational transition and that it cooperated fully once the correct data was identified. It also revealed that it was considering an appeal. 

FanDuel fined $350,000 over suspicious table tennis betting

In a separate enforcement action, AGCO has fined FanDuel Canada $350,000 after concluding the operator failed to properly report suspicious betting activity linked to table tennis matches.

The regulator said that FanDuel Canada accepted 144 bets from three Ontario accounts on Czech Table Tennis Star Series matches in the fall of 2024, which displayed multiple indicators commonly associated with match-fixing. These included abrupt shifts in wagering behavior, a concentration of bets on athletes to lose, and an implausibly high win rate. 

According to the AGCO, the activity continued for several weeks despite prior industry warnings about integrity concerns involving the tournament. The regulator said FanDuel failed to identify and report the suspicious betting in a timely manner, resulting in the $350,000 penalty.