Efforts by Codere to halt illegal activities of Spanish online operators have been supported by a court in Madrid. The court has already halted the operation of Sportingbet sites miapuesta.com and miapuesta.es and considers that “any offering of gaming or betting activity that has not been granted a prior administrative authorisation is, indisputably, prohibited.”
As reported in intergameonline.com, the “court states that any offering and marketing of games of chance and betting carried out remotely before and after the entry into force on May 29, 2011, of a new gaming law is illegal, since they have been developed breaching current prohibitions and without the relevant licences granted in Spain.”
Codere has been strenuously tying to bring these operators to justice; the very same operators that have been flaunting themselves from tax havens, impervious to the Spanish tax authorities, without licences, without player protection, without paying taxes in Spain, without generating employment and harming those entities which operate lawfully in Spain.
The Spanish government and the EU have now opened their eyes to this, as well as breaking away from the “legal vacuum” which has been used by unlicensed operators to justify their Spanish operations. Licenses being granted is still pending before the General Directorate of Gaming Supervision
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