The Netherlands Gambling Authority has imposed a conditional penalty payment of up to €75,000 on Malta-licensed NetX Betting, owner of the pferdewetten.de and betbird.com websites.
In the course of its investigation, the Dutch regulator found that both websites received around 90,000 visits from the Netherlands between January 2022 and March 2023. The regulator was also able – using an old account created prior to 2020 – to deposit funds and place several bets.
This was enough reason for the Dutch regulator to impose the conditional penalty payment, even though neither pferdewetten.de or betbird.com made use of the Dutch language, offered the iDEAL payment method, or even allowed the creation of new accounts by Dutch players.
While it is certainly possible that Dutch players, if they registered prior to 2020, continued to wager significant amounts using NetX Betting’s services, there appears to be little indication that this was actually the case.
