Sports betting has cost countless fans their money.
The online providers in particular lure with the promise of making a game “your game” with just a few clicks on the smartphone or PC keyboard. What many players do not know: For a long time, the betting providers with their homepages and apps were in a legal gray area. In fact, they didn’t even have a license to offer online betting. Now the Dresden Higher Regional Court (OLG) has made a judgment that could be groundbreaking for players who have lost money in illegal sports betting.
The startup “Chargeback24” and its partner law firm “HFS Rechtsanwälte” represent players who have lost money at illegal online betting providers and are now demanding it back. Last week, they were able to get the Dresden Higher Regional Court to have their client recover all of their losses plus five percent interest from a betting provider – a total of almost 12,600 euros. The judgment could be a signpost for the entire industry – and especially for the players.
“This is the first time that an OLG has ruled that losses from sports betting with a provider without a license must be repaid,” explains Thomas Schopf, lawyer at the law firm “HFS Rechtsanwälte” in an interview with the star.
According to the lawyer, there is currently a whole wave of lawsuits against providers of online gambling. In the case of online casinos, the legal situation is now very clear: “Casino games were completely banned on the Internet until mid-2021. There was no way to get a license for this,” says Schopf.
The online casino market in Germany was only opened up with the renewal of the State Treaty on Gambling. In sports betting, the situation has long been more complicated. Many providers applied for licenses that were to be issued in Germany from 2012. But the process was stopped, among other things, due to a lack of transparency in the award procedure. From this time on, the providers moved in a gray area: they didn’t have a license, but they couldn’t apply for one either. The result was wild growth.
More and more sports betting providers are entering the market – both online and offline. The competent authorities could hardly oppose them.
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