Key Takeaways
- In November last year, Poland’s Finance Ministry proudly published its strategy to counter offshore gambling sites by targeting winning players and charging them with tax evasion.
- Now Alex Dreyfus, owner of the Global Poker Index and the Hendon Mob, has complained that the Ministry is illegally using data belonging to his companies.
- Tax evasion is a crime in Sweden and Poland, and the authorities must uphold the law, but the targeting of players is also a back door way of sending a message that the state does not want players to play on non-nationally regulated sites.
In November last year, Poland’s Finance Ministry proudly published its strategy to counter offshore gambling sites by targeting winning players and charging them with tax evasion.
