The Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands Gambling Authority, has published details regarding its latest integrity assessment.
Whenever a company appoints new board members or people involved in legal matters within a gambling operator, it must notify the KSA so that integrity assessments can take place.
However, the latest integrity checks did not go as planned.
In the first case, the policymaker or co-policymaker had previously been involved in illegal online gambling operations.
In the second case, the policymaker has already received a "hefty" fine for violating tax laws.
In the third and final case, the policymaker had a history of being involved in "large-scale and long-term" violations of anti-money laundering policies. The company involved also did not cooperate properly during this investigation.
The KSA told the gaming providers that action would be taken if these policymakers and co-policymakers remained in office - but all of the personnel involved left before this could happen.
An additional case concerned a business partnership between a licensee and two legal entities that offered illegal games of chance in the Netherlands.
"These two legal entities had no management or control over the licensee," the KSA explained, "but there was a relevant relationship."
After the KSA alerted the companies that action may be taken against them, the business partnership was subsequently broken.
The Authority concluded that: "In all cases, the permit holder reacted so energetically that it was ultimately not necessary to proceed to formal decision-making."
Until 1 April 2022, the KSA offered a leniency scheme for people involved in illegal online gambling who were flagged during integrity tests. Since it was removed, any involvement is "heavily weighted" with records stretching back eight years
