Supabets Sports Betting has commenced payment of 'controversial' win to the patrons in Kumasi.

This comes after the company offered to pay winners 35 percent of the value of claims.

At least 30 people won a total of over GH127,000 from odds drawn last week resulting in a stand-off with winners who threatened legal action and attack on the company’s facilities.

Although the sports betting company conceded wrongdoing in the odds published on last Monday involving premier league matches between Hapoel Raanana versus Beitar Jerusalem and SC Austria Lustenu versus FC Wacker Innsbruck respectively, the company warned such acts would not be tolerated in the future.

A statement issued by the company said: “Management would like to bring to the attention of the general public that the said odds that generated the said winnings and which has occasioned this problem were wrong odds.”

It furthered “The errors that occurred are as a result of feeds and odds supplied by reputable, international companies that are used worldwide to obtain odds and gaming software.” 

Nhyira FM disclosed that though the amount being paid falls short of the actual value of wins, the winning bettors said they have no option than to accept what is being offered them.

Speaking to Nhyira FM, one of the winners who won 30, 000 cedis said “We discuss it and later we agreed that we should accept it like that so they gave us 35 % of each amount that we won. They forced us but we have to accept it like that.”

“They disclosed the company would be shut down should they pay us all the winning money,”  he said.

At least twenty of them had received the announced claims at the time of Nhyira FM’s visit to the Asafo office of Supabets Sports Betting.

On his part, an official at the Asafo branch who pleaded anonymously said could not tell how the 35 per cent was arrived at.

What I know is that the decision was taken at the Supabets head office in South Africa, he said.