Blue Gem Gaming assets seized by Sheriff Gaming receiver

Casino software supplier Blue Gem Gaming has had its assets seized by the receiver handling Sheriff Gaming’s bankruptcy case, claiming them to legally belong to the defunct company eGaming Review understands.

The content has since been removed from online casinos hosting it and the company’s website has disappeared.

Attempts to contact the company by its PR agency have been unsuccessful.

Blue Gem Gaming, formed by ex-Sheriff Gaming staff, launched last month marketing content previously owned by Bubble Group.

The firm claimed to be entirely independent of Sheriff Gaming and had planned a European push as soon it decided which online gaming jurisdiction to pursue a licence with.

Bubble Group, Sheriff Gaming’s parent company, was declared bankrupt in February this year two days after it had its Category 2 Alderney Gambling Control Commission licence revoked.

The regulator deemed that it was “no longer fit and proper to hold such a certificate”, and stories in the Dutch press linked the firm with debts in the millions of euros.

Its bankruptcy followed a lengthy investigation into the firm’s CEO Stijn Flapper, who has been accused of money laundering in his native Netherlands and was questioned by police in November last year.