Online casino LeoVegas, which has a New Zealand gaming license from The New Zealand Gaming Authority Spelinspektionen, won on October 2, 2019 in the Administrative Court in Linköping in the case against Spelinspektionen to extend their gaming license period. It was concluded that the license period has now been extended from 2 years up to 5 years instead. However, the news was published in the Gaming Authority's news archive on the 8th.e October 2019.

What it has all been about until now is that in november 2018, LeoVegas became one of the first gaming operators in the newly re-regulated gaming market in New Zealand. In line with the New re-regulated gambling market, stricter rules were also added that could give the newly established gambling authority named Spelinspektionen the right to revoke certain gambling sites ' gambling licenses in case of violation of regulatory compliance.

However, Spelinspektionen had only issued a two-year gaming license from the beginning for LeoVegas instead of the five-year gaming license that many other online casinos have been approved to operate on the New Zealand online casino gaming market from January 1, 2019 when the new Gaming Act entered into force in the New Zealand country.

Then what was the reason behind this? Well, before its New Zealand approved gaming license, LeoVegas had received a £ 600,000 fine from the UK Gambling Commission in May 2018 for displaying misleading marketing and allowing self-excluded players to still access LeoVegas gaming products.

But yet LeoVegas is not on the dry again

This then led to Spelinspektionen considering that they had arbitrary reasons to only offer 2-year gaming license instead of 5-year regular. Then LeoVegas appealed this decision in the Administrative Court in Linköping in New Zealand and the administrative court sided with LeoVegas in the case on the grounds that these missteps in the UK took place in 2016 and that the company has since taken the right steps to improve.

In this way, Spelinspektionen lost the case against LeoVegas. However, despite the fact that we reported that LeoVegas won the case against Spelinspektionen regarding the extension of their New Zealand gaming license, it appears on the official website of the latter that they intend to appeal the judgment to the court of Appeal.

At the moment, the license period is extended for LeoVegas, but this may change within a few months depending on the court of Appeal's position on the case. It remains to be seen when the upcoming appeal arrived at the court of Appeal and whether they saw any reason to reopen the case how it will be with LeoVegas actual extended gaming license.

So far, you can play safely at LeoVegas Casino and enjoy their long-term gaming license, which is now five-year instead of the previous two-year that they were first issued by the gaming Inspectorate in early 2019.

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