The Dutch gambling regulator is collecting penalty payments from two companies totalling almost €300,000.
The Dutch gambling regulator is collecting penalty payments from two companies totalling almost €300,000.
LCS Limited has been fined an additional €165,000 after a previously imposed fine of €2.074m by the regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) in October 2023.
The initial violation related to LCS’ Son of Slots platform, but the KSA said a re-inspection of the company in October 2023 found that LCS’ Yugibet was offering games of chance without a licence.
The KSA has subsequently imposed the further €165,000 fine on LCS.
Elsewhere, the Dutch regulator has imposed a €129,000 penalty on Blue High House.
“Blue High House was imposed an order subject to penalty in October 2023 for offering illegal games of chance via the concreteline.ag website” the KSA said.
“This offence has not stopped; the website still gives Dutch players the opportunity to gamble, although there is no Dutch licence.
“That is why this charge, amounting to €129,000, is now also being collected. In addition, a fine may also be imposed here.”
The total fine for the two companies is €294,000.
René Jansen, KSA chairman, said: “An order subject to a penalty is more than a warning to an illegal provider.
“Illegal providers who do not take the right measures to ban Dutch players will be dealt with harshly by the KSA and will feel this where it affects them most, in their wallets.”
However, LCS lawyers have declared that the company will be challenging both the recovery and the disclosure decisions.
“In the recovery decision, the KSA takes the view that the order for periodic penalty payments imposed on L.CS Limited would have been breached and that, therefore, periodic penalty payments were forfeited by operation of law,” the company put out in a statement.
“LCS Limited cannot agree with this at all and considers both decisions unjustified, due to various inaccuracies and the unlawful and unauthorised action of the KSA. LCS Limited has therefore filed an objection to both decisions.
“Let there be no misunderstanding: we take our obligations under Dutch law seriously. The recovery decision is unjust in view of the facts. LCS Limited has taken various technical measures to deny or impede access to players from the Netherlands.
“We wish to make it explicitly clear that LCS Limited has not re-entered the Dutch market in any capacity.”
