RGA Complains About Plans To Re-Establish Greek OPAP Monopoly Via Blacklist

Backroom deal on OPAP starts blacklist process for potential competitors—accidental disclosure gives the RGA a chance to complain.

Key Takeaways

The RGA has written to the Hellenic Gaming Commission to complain about a review of operators which they say is designed to produce a blacklist.
The accidental publication of the blacklist on the regulator’s website makes the claim hard to deny.
The purpose of the list is alleged to be to provide OPAP with a monopoly of online gaming in Greece.

The Remote Gaming Association (RGA) has challenged a Greek review of the 24 temporary operating licenses issued to online gaming operators. The RGA has written to the Hellenic Gaming Commission demanding that the review process be stopped.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on August 01, 2013.

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