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OPAP to control Greek online gaming market until 2020

21st March 2013 9:14 am GMT

Greece submitted draft legislation to the European Commission Wednesday that would hand a monopoly over virtually all forms of online gaming to Greek gambling operator OPAP, in which the government holds a 33 per cent stake.

In addition to its monopoly on sports betting, OPAP would also be handed a monopoly over all games of chance provided over the internet using random number generators (RNG), until October 12th 2020.

As a result, any locally licensed online gaming [...]

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