Some days ago, Estonia announced that they wanted to fight against illegal gambling. Last Tuesday they completed their list of illegal gambling operators that should be banned by the providers of internet service in that country. This law was released and implemented this year stating that there’s only one operator who has permission from the state and all others are considered as outlaw. This list includes 175 domain names and some of them are big online poker names.
Sites on the list are under penalty and have a fine for 40,000 crowns. Some of the names on the list were real companies interested in the Estonian market.
Most of the forums in Estonia related to poker are going under this law by the Estonian Tax and Customs Board. It is basically a decision to block all access to foreign online poker sites. The list of names includes PokerStars, Party Poker, Full Tilt Poker, Unibet and Bwin.
The only operator of the sector with a state license is the OEG group. Complains about the Estonian Legislation have come from everywhere the European commission said that online gambling could be considered one of the exceptional fields where the national governments can still apply their own policies even if they go against the EU agreements like the EU regulations on freedom of movement of goods and services.
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