Curaçao license, taking SEPA payments and closed account.

KLE25

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I have a family member whom has a gambling problem.

They are registered on Gamstop in the UK. They have since joined up to one of the Curacao online casino's with 1668/JAZ license.

In the past month they have deposited between £70,000-£85,000 on said site and lost everything.

During the month the casino has been allowing withdrawals but all the money was eventually lost, £40,000 in one night at one point.

Does anyone know if Curacao has any duty of care to protect players suffering a gambling addiction? £40,000 in one night seems crazy and I'm sure a UK site would have flashed that up.

With the casino only having a Curacao license have they taken the money from a UK customer illegally?

Is there a case for a bank chargeback?

On first attempt Barclays have already pushed back on the prospect of a chargeback as they were verified by my family member.

I know the root of the problem is the addiction and not getting the money back, but this is someone who has sold everything they have, house car and now have nothing. This impossible to comprehend for me as someone who doesn't gamble!
I’ve just had this predicament with myself. Didn’t spend as much but was already banned with Gamstop and one of the other casinos on the parent companies books. Opened account on other site easily. Paid almost exclusively with SEPA payments (paid direct to company). It says with SEPA payments no ID required (not that I wasn’t willing to provide this. Account details etc are shown to company with this). Allowed me to deposit although very obviously had a primblem. In this time have taken multiple loans. I win money (not all that have deposited but enough to pay some of the loans off. They want account verification now. No other point have I been asked. There is no instructions on what will be accept we or not. I use a drivers licence as didn’t know this is unacceptable. I also covered wrong letters on card even though it’s very obvious it’s me. They reply 12 hours later. Not verified. I do it again the way I’m asked and send it back. In this time I cave and blitz everything in a very short time. Obviously I’m frustrated that they’ll take my money but won’t give me what I’m due. I complain and when I said yes I probably do have a problem they cancel my account immediately and give me a permanent ban. I complain that it’s unfair as at no point was I giving any instruction to verify but also that they have my details via the SEPA payments etc. they tell me I’m not entitled to any refunds whatsoever.
Do I have any recourse here? I understand it’s they’ll just say but I didn’t follow verification steps, but there wasn’t any!
 

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