Curacao Fines Online Gambling Company for Operating Without a License
Published on:
Sep/09/2013
The Dutch Antilles island of Curacao has fined an online gambling operator $100,000 for failing to hold a gaming license.
The company, Global Stars, focuses primarily on the Dutch market where such activity is deemed illegal.
Jan Suyver, chairman of the Kansspelautoriteit, said that “companies offering online gambling now know they can be penalised because licences are yet to be granted, and consumers know that those who do so are not being supervised by the government.”
Curacao is perhaps best known for being the home base of sports betting operator Pinnacle Sports. That company was named in a US indictment late last year.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com
