Dutch banks and e-wallets are expected to be no later than this spring flows to illegal gambling sites blocking. The gaming authority makes arrangements to prevent the sites via paypal and e-wallets payments can be received.
This is evident from the responses of the state secretary of Security and Justice Fred Teeven to parliamentary Questions. According to the secretary of state tries the gaming authority not only when gambling online directly to address, but also actively tried to ‘barriers to effective management of those providers as difficult as possible’.
One of the ways this is done is by to try the funding of such sites to block. “There is an agreement in preparation between the gaming authority and financial service providers, that makes it possible to the payments to the provider of illegal gambling to block,” writes Teeven. “Also, there are agreements made with social media Facebook and Facebook to complain of these providers to remove.”
The covenant where the secretary of state refers to, according to the gaming authority all appearance this spring of power. “The negotiations are in a final phase, and the covenant is expected to be completed this spring signed,” said Martijn van de Koolwijk, spokesperson of the authority, against Tweakers. That would mean that from that moment on, not only by Dutch banks, but also e-wallets the funds to illegal gambling sites.
Although the gaming authority to own say too few resources and people to all the illegal gambling sites to tackle, expects the authority, within a few months, major steps can be put in the fight against such sites. “If we have infinite time, they would all turn out. We can drive traffic to such sites does not block, so that means that we set priorities and have to make choices.”
The gaming authority says to make choices on the basis of estimated size of the illegal gambling site, but also on the basis of the extent to which the site is located on the Dutch cast. Thus, consideration of whether iDeal as a payment option is offered. “We have recently Casino.com a fine may be imposed, inter alia, because we were able to demonstrate that they are, emphatically, the Dutch founded because they are iDeal in offering it.”