Cashalot found without a license And the Swedish regulator Spelinspektionen closes the Indigo Soft operator in Sweden.
The reasons for the closing of Indigo derive from the fact that It was found to offer, through the Cashalot site, games with cash bets in Sweden without a valid license in the country, but Only with a curacao license.
In practice it was not a legal online casino, a bit as if we had been without in USA Licenza AAM it adm.
Cashalot found without a license: the investigations
Cashalot closed in Sweden because found without a license Following investigations open by Spelinspektionen, who had the suspicion that Indigo Soft was offering his services in the country despite having only the care license.
And in fact, the regulator realized that the site of Cashalot aimed at Swedish playersnull But not only that, in fact He also had affiliated sites that promoted him in Swedish to a Swedish audience.
Also, proceeding with the investigations they also realized that The site did not block the registration to Swedish users. Which means that Cashalot, found without a license, aimed to offer his services in Sweden.
The order for Indigo Soft to leave the Swedish market comes while the country is evaluating important changes in the way of managing operators without license. Currently the regulator acts only against the operators without a license that turn to Swedish citizens. Recently, however, A government report has emphasized that all the sites that accept Swedish customers without a license will soon be banned from the country.
The way that Sweden is following is very similar to that recently introduced in the Netherlands with the opening of the regulated game market. After the introduction of this new policy, many operators such as Kindred, 888, Entain, Betsson e LeoVegas they announced that they would have blocked all Dutch customers.
Spelinspektionen from 2019 to today, in addition to Cashalot has ordered to 22 operators found without a license to leave the Swedish market.
The declarations of the Spelinspektionen regulator
The Cashalot regulator found without a license said that: "The fact that the game is visibly addressed to the Swedish market or not is decisive to determine if the Gambling Act is applicable to online games".
According to its strategy to deal with the activities without license, published in December 2022, The order to leave the market is only the first step.
Operators who do not comply will then be fined, and if this cannot dissuade them, Gaming Inspectorate will turn to the police or alternatively they can request an injunction of the Court to block payments suppliers from processing transactions for these sites.
Then the regulator gave Indigo the opportunity to answer, since Cashalot was closed in Sweden because found without a license, But he said he hadn't received an answer yet by the operator.
