Dutch gaming regulator Kansspelautoriteit is going after illegal online gaming operators. KSA just handed down a €450,000 (US$508,000) fine to Gibraltar-based Onisac Ltd., the company that operates casino.com.
Onisac was fined €200,000 when it was found to be offering online games of chance, reported SBC News. That penalty was doubled when the provider kept operating despite a sanction by KSA in 2013. The remaining €50,000 fine was incurred after the group were found to have charged unreasonable administration costs to inactive players. Players had funds deducted from their accounts in the form of “administration fees” after they had been inactive for a period of 180 days.
“The KSA assesses this as an unreasonable disadvantage for consumers,” as noted in the ruling. Since the fine had been issued, casino.com has now been taken offline for Dutch users.
“This is a repeat offender,” said René Jansen, chairman of the KSA. “That makes the violation extra harmful and is reason to double the fine.”
Dutch law precludes unlicensed online games of chance, and in any case does not license them under the current Betting and Gaming Act.
