The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit, KSA) will collect €840,000 in penalty payments from 3-102-897762 LTDA, the Costa Rican company behind the online casino Starzino, after it kept starzino.com open to Dutch players. The KSA Starzino collection decision was published on 9 November.
The decision, dated 17 July 2026, states that the company breached an order of 6 March and did not pay the penalties it forfeited. The full sum is the maximum the March order allowed.
The KSA Starzino order
An order subject to penalty payments (last onder dwangsom) sets a sum a company forfeits automatically for each period it keeps breaching the order. In its order of 6 March, the KSA set €420,000 for each week or part of a week, capped at €840,000, once a four-week deadline expired on 3 April. The company did not object to the order.
A KSA supervisor checked starzino.com on 7 April and 14 April and could log in with existing account details and play. The KSA concluded the breach had not ended, so two weekly penalties of €420,000 were forfeited by operation of law.
How the case was built
The March order describes three checks made from a Dutch IP address in 2025. On 8 July 2025 the registration form filled in the Netherlands and the +31 dialling code by itself, and the supervisor deposited Bitcoin and played the slot Majestic White Rhino at €0.01 per line. The site had no technical measures to keep Dutch players out, according to the order.
By 30 October 2025 the first test account had been blocked. A new account could still be opened and funded from the Netherlands, the KSA found. The order also names two Dutch-language affiliate sites, znaki.fm and casinojager.com, that promoted Starzino, and it covers every other website or app the company owns or runs.
Who runs the site
The KSA identified 3-102-897762 LTDA as the owner from the footer and the terms and conditions of starzino.com. The Costa Rica commercial register places the company in Jacó, in the canton of Garabito, according to the order. On 9 November starzino.com was still online, and article 1.4 of its terms of use named EHC Limitada, registered in San José, Costa Rica, as the operator. The same terms list the Netherlands among the countries whose residents may not register.
The decision is the latest in a run of KSA enforcement actions against offshore sites, after the record €37.25m fine on Instant Casino operator EOD Code in October and the binding instruction to supplier Endorphina on 3 November.
Next steps
The €840,000 was due within six weeks of 17 July. A letter announcing the planned collection, sent on 1 May, did not reach the company by post, and the KSA sent it again on 28 May. 3-102-897762 LTDA can object within six weeks of the decision being sent, and an objection does not suspend the collection.
Source: Kansspelautoriteit
