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Article: Betfair lambasts Dutch government over online ban
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2009
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Betfair, the online betting specialist, has launched a
multimillion-euro legal action against the Dutch government over its
attempt to ban banks in the country from processing payments made by
Dutch customers on online gaming websites based in the UK.
Betfair, which is headquartered in London, has also made a formal
complaint to the European Commission and accused the Dutch
government of unlawfully protecting the "gaming monopoly" of
operators in the Netherlands, where there is a ban on online gaming.
The complaint and lawsuit, filed at a civil court in the Hague on
Wednesday, concern a letter that the Dutch government sent in
February to the country's banks urging them to stop processing ...