Senate debates

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Documents

Gambling; Order for the Production of Documents

6:07 pm

Photo of Nick XenophonNick Xenophon (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) That the Senate notes that:

(a) Sportradar is a multinational corporation headquartered in Switzerland and:

(i) the company specialises in sport data collection and dissemination,

(ii) the company provides services to sports and state authorities to monitor for match fixing, and

(iii) in 2015, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Federal Police related to sports integrity and intelligence;

(b) Real Time Sportscasts is a subsidiary of Sportradar and:

(i) the company collects data from amateur sporting competitions on behalf of offshore live betting sites,

(ii) the company pays scouts to attend amateur, semi-professional and low-level sports events to collect live data and feed that data back to a global hub in the Philippines that distributes the data to international gambling sites, and

(iii) the company has been collecting information within Australia for this purpose;

(c) the Australian Federal Police have a role in policing match fixing in sports; and

(d) there is a strong public interest in openness and transparency in circumstances where a law enforcement agency enters into an agreement with a company operating in an area relating to the activity being policed.

(2) That there be laid on the table, by the Minister representing the Minister for Justice, by the start of business on 22 June 2017, a copy of the 2015 Memorandum of Understanding between the Australian Federal Police and Sportradar.

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