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Gamblers in Holland spned Euro million Euros a year
 February 1, 2009, 9:16 am (1 year ago)As stated by a survey by the research company Motivaction, the total amount of the money spent by gamblers in Holland a year is up to 450 million Euros on their amusement. The exposure is going to certainly encourage Dutch politicians, who wish to maintain the market private to the state gambling monopoly, to bigger attempts.
At the beginning of this week Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin advised online gambling companies aiming Dutch residents that his division would target them in undetermined authorized actions, and cautioned banks about the processing of illegitimate Internet gambling transactions.
The most recent statistics point out that Dutch online users’ annual gambling expenditure was doubled up since 2005. Motivaction states that Dutch gamblers, mainly young people, spend an average of Euro 82 per month on the Internet and that there are 485,000 regular players.
Holland has not yet licensed any online gambling sites. Attempts to give an online license to the state gambling monopoly Holland Casino last year were stopped in congress.
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