While European gambling regulators intensify their crackdown on illegal offshore casinos, a more uncomfortable question is emerging for the banking sector: are major retail banks, through rigid chargeback practices and weak scrutiny of miscoded card transactions, helping illegal gambling networks stay operational?
A decade after the OAD insolvency precipitated by Rabobank, the appellate proceedings concerning OAD's dispute with Rabobank are set to commence on 13 September. Attorney Jan Michiel Wagenaar, representing OAD, has been refining the legal arguments and amassing supplementary evidence for the appeal. Wagenaar is also the Dutch lawyer for the European Fund Recovery Initiative (EFRI) in the Payvision case.