{"id":6428,"date":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/europe\/german-court-orders-a-gambling-operator-to-refund-e25375-in-losses\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"german-court-orders-a-gambling-operator-to-refund-e25375-in-losses","status":"publish","type":"europe","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/europe\/german-court-orders-a-gambling-operator-to-refund-e25375-in-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"German court orders a gambling operator to refund \u20ac25,375 in losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Legal cases have been brought by several customers in Germany who lost money with gambling operators before the legalization of online gambling last year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Now for the first time, a regional court (the second highest level of court) in K&ouml;ln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, has found in favour of the player in one of the cases, ordering an operator to refund &euro;25,375 in losses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">The player brought the case against an unnamed Gibraltar-based online casino operator whose products he used between October 2017 and April 2020. At that time, online casino gambling was only permitted in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, but the operator&rsquo;s games were available in German to all German residents.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">The court ruled that the operator had breached section 4, paragraph 4 of Germany&rsquo;s State Treaty on Gambling at that time. As such, it said the operator had no legal grounds to take the player&rsquo;s money.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">The player&rsquo;s lawyer Istv&aacute;n Cocron said: <em>&ldquo;The online games of chance should not have been offered in Germany. It was not until July 1, 2021 that the requirements for offering online gambling in Germany were relaxed.&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">He said there were good chances that other players would be able to recover past losses. However, until now other courts have rejected such claims from players, forming the opinion that the players themselves had also broken the law and should have known that online gambling was not legal.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Meanwhile, the executive of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has launched the website for the country&rsquo;s new federal regulator, Gemeinsamen Gl&uuml;cksspielbeh&ouml;rde der L&auml;nder (GGL &ndash; The German Federal States&rsquo; Joint Gambling Authority).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">The GGL says that 110 staff will be required by the agency. It intends to be fully operational on January 1, 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">No Copyright infringement intended. Video\/Photo Unknown Direct for credits\/issue or text us +57 3606412 &#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt\"><span style=\"background-color:white\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">| Respect to Photographers &amp; Influencer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe online games of chance should not have been offered in Germany. It was not until July 1, 2021 that the requirements for offering online gambling in Germany were relaxed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6429,"menu_order":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3623,3624],"class_list":["post-6428","europe","type-europe","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-the-online-games-of-chance-should-not-have-been-offered-in-germany-it-was-not-until-july-1","tag-2021-that-the-requirements-for-offering-online-gambling-in-germany-were-relaxed","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>German court orders a gambling operator to refund \u20ac25,375 in losses - Mundo Video Entertainment | Casino News in Latin America and the World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/europe\/german-court-orders-a-gambling-operator-to-refund-e25375-in-losses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"German court orders a gambling operator to refund \u20ac25,375 in losses - Mundo Video Entertainment | Casino News in Latin America and the World\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThe online games of chance should not have been offered in Germany. 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