Dutch Government

Recent reports from the Netherlands reveal that Ernst Hirsch Ballin, the Dutch justice minister, is preparing to crack down on the illegal online casinos in the very near future. The government will be cracking down on the online casinos that are currently operating both domestically and the ones that are based out of the country. This comes after there have been reports of the local online casino industry ‘pushing the buttons’ of the government. Banks in the area have been warned that they will be prosecuted if they have an online casino as one of their customers. This would mean that there is a burden that is going to be placed on the financial industries.

The Dutch government currently controls all of the gambling in the country. The companies that offer gambling in the country without the government’s authority are therefore operating illegal online casinos or land based casinos. Currently the European Union has issues with the two countries Greece and the Netherlands for not cooperating with the rest of the EU on the online casino and gambling matters. Just last year the justice minister of the Netherlands told the local banks not to process transactions from the online casino Unibet and Oranje Casino. This is leading for the country to have online gambling monopolies which the European Union is completely against.

As we know, the online casino industry is full of situations like this. With the current economic state of the world all online casinos are struggling to stay afloat and the two governments are not helping. There have been plenty of failed attempts to restrict online casinos in Holland not to mention the attempts that the American government has tried to place on the United States financial institutions. At the end of the day, the Dutch are going to continue on the way that they have been trying to battle online gambling.