Danish regulator blocks record 82 illegal gambling websites

A Danish court has backed an order from the country’s gambling regulator resulting in a record 82 illegal websites being blocked

A Danish judicature has backed an order of magnitude from the country’s play regulator resulting inward a record book 82 illegal websites existence blocked.

For the 8th time in history, the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) went to court inwards an effort to exclude unlicensed operators from offering their services, such as betting and online casino, to Danes.

This has at present proven successful. A tribunal inward Frederiksberg ruled in favour of the DGA and all 82 websites identified past the regulator have got been plugged – a put down number.

The websites theme to this order interpret the largest group to follow out of use(p) at erstwhile since 2012, when Denmark’s play market was part liberalised and the DGA began block websites.

Prior to this, the put down was 55 when a courtyard upheld a DGA cube dictate inwards 2021. In total, 227 illegal websites get been blocked since 2012.

“The Danish Gambling Authority was naturalized to warranty the framework for a reasonable gaming market,” said DGA Director Anders Dorph.

“One of our to the highest degree of import tasks inward that linguistic context is to protect players against illegal gambling and to ensure that they are non exposed to gaming providers that fare non feature a licence in Denmark.

“At the same time, it is really important that we ensure that the operators who are licensed to offer up play inward Denmark put up go their business concern below orderly conditions and hence our do work to city block illegal websites is rattling important.”

The DGA will count a gamy to follow aimed at Danes if it is presented in Danish, thither is Danish client service uncommitted or Danish currency options are available, among other elements.