Unibet loses lawsuit in Netherlands in Utrecht to De Lotto

An Utrech court has decided that prohibited Unibet gambling proposers by means of its Internet site illegal offer gambling games, among which gambling football paid on Dutch amateur games and games from.

As this Dutch website reportsthe Dutch monopoly operator De Lotto says it has secured a court verdict last week against European online operator Unibet, following Unibet’s decision to offer betting on amateur football in Holland. However, the Wimbledon-based operator says it has no knowledge of the ruling.

The lawsuit had been tightened by the Lotto, the only licensee in the Netherlands for offering sport questions. The Lotto gives annual approximately 60 millions euro to the combined Netherlands Olympic Committee and Dutch Sports Federation NOC*CNSF and other good aims in the field of culture, social well-being and public health.
The Lotto organisation doneerde since its establishment in 1961, has clearred 1.5 billion to several good aims. More than 1.1 billion of it helped to the sport. The Lotto is, beside the government, of the important geldschieters of the Dutch sport.
The Lotto, as only licensee, is moreover at this moment in conversation with the KNVB concerning herintroductie of Toto.
Resistance worker gambles on sport games receives a lot of attention the last time prominent. Recent is there in the House of Commons ask keen concerning offer of gamble on games from amateur football by the company Unibet.

In the sentence the Utrechtse right who offering gambling games, predominates, among which gambling on amateur games and games from paid football is prohibited, without Dutch license. By doing this, however, Unibet act unlawfully towards the Lotto. Unibet must strike by directly its gambling offers under penalty of a penalty payment of 100,000 euro per day and with maximum of three millions euro. This is 17th the time that the Dutch judge judges that offering illegal gambling games in the Netherlands is prohibited.