Thorough commentary on the laws of online casinos!

Is an online casino illegal?legal?

As you all know, Japanese law prohibits gambling.

So what is the legal position of online casinos?

I think everyone is interested.

Under Japanese gambling law, penalties are imposed depending on the situation, such as the side that provides gambling (online casino site) and the side that plays (user) must both be illegal.

Whether it is legal or illegal is often debated, but in the case of online casinos, the operating company that provides the casino is completely legal and it is a case that is not assumed by Japanese law, so "online casino" I think the explanation that "there is no law to regulate" is correct.

Simply put, if you are licensed abroad and play at a legally operated online casino, there is no law that applies to Japanese gambling laws.

As long as the law that regulates it is not at this stage, it cannot be said to be legal, but it cannot be said to be illegal.

In European countries and the states of the United States, there is a movement to strengthen the legislation and make it fully legal.

In Japan, the trend toward legalization of non-online casinos (land casinos) is progressing all over the country recently, so it seems that the full legalization of online casinos is not far away.

What is the case of arrest?

There are some cases of arrest when examined.

In the case where the operator was arrested, it was judged that the casino was operated in Japan because "they were operating based in Japan" even if they were using a legal online casino overseas. ..

In this case, if both the body and the user are in the country, gambling charges will be established and it will be completely illegal.

So-called dark casinos, or traders who enter between legal overseas casinos and users (such as betting on behalf of users) are completely out.

But what about playing at an individual overseas online casino?

In June 2016, three people were arrested on suspicion of simple gambling.

In this case, three people were caught for playing an online casino from their home PC.

The online casino, which is said to have been played by three people, is a legal casino operated overseas, and there are no servers, stores, or operations in Japan, and it is completely online play.

Two of the three people caught received summary charges and paid fines.This is not a judicial judgment because it is the flow of admitting your sins and solving it with money.

The other one was dissatisfied with the arrest and fought with a lawyer, resulting inDismissal.

In this case, even if it is caught, it is impossible to file a case as a gambling crime, so it means that the judiciary has decided that there is no blame.

つ ま りDifficult to convict even if you tryIt will be said.

In this regard, it may have been the purpose of restraining online casinos by showing cases of arrests.

At an online casino called Smart 〇 Live Casino, there was a site that appointed a Japanese dealer and recommended a service for Japanese people, so "Clearly Japanese people played games for Japanese people = Casino in Japan It seems that he decided to arrest him from the judgment that he played.

After all, even if an individual actually spends money playing at an online casino that is legally operated overseas, even if it is from Japan.Proof of not being guilty (cannot).

Conclusion

I can't say for sure whether it's illegal or legal.

In the future, I hope that the courts and the Diet will discuss what to do with the law based on solid discussions.

Understand that and everythingJudgment at your own risklet's do it.