Netherland Banks Object to Policing Online Gaming - Pokerpages.com

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Echoing the many objections raised by the American banking industry to policing the UIGEA, representatives of the Netherlands Bankers Association (NVB) similarly told Dutch Justice Minister Hirsch Ballin that his plan to use Dutch financial institutions to police online poker and Internet gambling sites is neither practical nor legal.

Minister Ballin had told the Dutch Senate that he would stop the hundreds of millions of Euros leaving the country to foreign internet gaming operators, with the help of the Dutch financial system.

"The Minister wants us to become an extension of the Justice system, but that is not the role of the banks," quoted NVB spokesperson Michel Noordermeer in a Gaming Intelligence Group article.

The NVB is aware that the European Commission has threatened to bring countries to the European Court of Justice for not complying with EU rules entitling EU-licensed companies to do business across EU member states.

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