scoot follows reports that DraftKings employee may have accessed valuable data before winning $350000 in a FanDuel contest, in incident likened to insider tradingDaily fantasy sports operator FanDuel said Wednesday it will permanently ban all employees from playing any daily fantasy sports for money and begin an internal probe following reports a DraftKings employee may have had access to unfairly valuable data before winning $350000 in a FanDuel contest.
FanDuel said in a release there’s no evidence showing the contest was compromised or that non-public information was used to gain an unfair advantage. But the modern York-based company said it doesn’t want to rely only on what it knows correct now and wants to rebuild trust with its players.
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Source: theguardian.com