Publishing figures behind the country’s gambling ecosystem for the previous year, the GGL confirmed that illegal gambling revenue – defined as player losses in the report – stood between €400m and €600m.
Signalling that black market gambling is still rife in the nation, these figures are equal to around four per cent of the total market’s GGR, which came in at €13.7bn for the year.
Per segment, online gambling generated €3bn, 21.9 per cent of the total GGR, with online sports betting accounting for €1.8bn of this figure. Online slots and poker contributed €400m.
The regulator stated that 1,864 websites were checked across the period, of which it proceeded to block operations on 133 instances – 87 cases of offering illegal gambling and 46 cases of websites connected to black market advertising.
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