Lithuania’s Gaming Control Authority (GCA) is expected to remove Betway Limited from its list of illegal gambling operators after the Maltese-based company, which is not licenced in Lithuania, agreed to block access to its online gambling services for users in Lithuania.

An amicable settlement between Betway and the GCA was approved by the Regional Administrative Court on May 13, and the case was closed.

Betway had asked the court to annul a document from the GCA on March 18 regarding a request from the company to restore access to its blocked Internet domain, to remove it from the list of illegal gambling operators, and to order the regulator to reconsider the request.

Under the settlement, Betway agreed to block access to its site, Betway.com, for Lithuanian users and to ensure that no mirror sites are available unless the company obtains a licence to operate in Lithuania.

In exchange, the GCA committee to revoking, within seven days, its January 2016 decision to block the Website and to removing Betway from the list of illegal operators.

The court ruling may be appealed before Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court within seven days.

The Betway Website was blocked early in 2016 after Lithuania tightened oversight of online gambling operators and authorised the GCA to instruct Internet service providers to block the Websites of those companies which did not have a local licence.

Source: BNS

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