Czech Republic Allows Online Gambling from MondayFive Czech Bookmakers To Be Granted Online Gambling Licenses from January 5, 2009 |
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The Czech Republic is set to legalise and regulate online gambling with five firms being granted permits to operate from 
January 5, 2009 according to the Prague Post.
Tomáš Bahník from the Fortuna Group, which will receive a license, told the Czech newspaper, “We are sad and bitter that foreign internet betting companies are allowed to operate in the Czech Republic without any control. There is no legal restriction. So basically they operate in this country illegally. So we want to have the same opportunities as foreign companies.”
However punters will not be allowed to use credit cards and will have to visit a betting shop to open an account.
“If someone wants to bet through Fortuna on internet, they must register in a bricks and mortar office and show their ID,” confirmed Bahník. “We don’t accept credit cards but only regular payment cards because we don’t support gambling and gamblers and we don’t want people to become addicted to internet betting.
It is not yet known whether any of the licensed operators have plans to set up an online poker site.
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