PKR and Redbet added to Belgian blacklist

PKR and Nordic Leisure brand Redbet are among the latest operators to be added to Belgium’s egaming blacklist, the country’s regulator has confirmed.

Alderney-licensed business PKR has seen its primary dot.com site and its pkrcasino.com domain blocked by the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC), while the same fate has befallen the dot.com domains of Malta-licensed operators Redbet and Klaver Casino plus Curacao-licensed GoldenCherry Casino. eGR is awaiting comment from PKR at the time of writing.

Meanwhile the BGC confirmed the domains associated with the F1+ sports betting licences issued to bwin.party (bwin.be) and Circus Groupe (circusbet.be). Bwin.party was approved for a Belgian poker and casino offering last month, while its sports betting licence is in the name of CKO Betting NV.

Dot.be licensees require a land-based presence or partnership to be approved by the BGC, and the approval of bwin and Circus means nine companies are now authorised to offer online sports betting to Belgian customers, either via their own licences or those held by partners in the EU member state.

The latest actions from the Commission bring the total number of blacklisted sites up to 69, still below the total of 100 initially anticipated by Peter Naessens, head of the BGC’s regulatory unit. Among those on the blacklist is bet-at-home, which lost an appeal against its inclusion earlier this year.