Since 2013, the Foundation’s director ms. Nardy Cramm publishes and blogs about the Dutch offshore gambling network on Knipselkrant Curaçao (KKC), the largest Dutch independent online news & freedom of speech platforum and digital archive in the Caribbean & Latin America. Also, she cooperates with well respected international media like New York Times, PBS (Frontline) and the BBC.
Furthermore, as a publicist and blogger ms. Cramm assists eminent international media in investigative journalist productions and research, regarding the ‘Dutch offshore online gaming network’, becoming a frontrunner and expert regarding the Dutch offshore online gaming industry.
In January 2019, Cramm was interviewed as an expert by the BBC for the Radio 4 podcast ‘The Gamble Network‘. In episode 3 ‘How gambling interests bought a country’ BBC producer Jolyon Jenkins discovers how the Caribbean island of Curacao, where many offshore gambling sites turn a blind eye to under-age gambling, are licensed.
In January 2019, Cramm was interviewed as an expert by the BBC for the Radio 4 podcast ‘The Gamble Network‘. In episode 3 ‘How gambling interests bought a country’ BBC producer Jolyon Jenkins discovers how the Caribbean island of Curacao, where many offshore online gambling sites target players who are addicted, encourage excessive gambling and turn a blind eye to under-age gambling, are licensed.
On March 27, 2019, Cramm became founder and director of the Representation of Victims of Online Gaming Foundation in Curacao. Some of the SBGOK case law has been published on the Dutch State of Law case law portal Rechtspraak.nl.
Six weeks after the announcement of launching of her first book ‘Killing Helmin Wiels’ in November 2020, Cramm, as a journalist and blogger, became a target herself in many courtcases. Procedures against her are specifically aimed at preventing intended publications and debate about the unsolved murder of a popular politician in Curacao in 2013, who wanted to shed a light on a money laundering route between the Netherlands and Curacao of approximately 10-20,000 online casinos on the basis of a ‘sublicense’ to which almost only Dutch banks , trust offices and corporate service providers with a Dutch background and anonymous beneficial owners/involved persons of several thousand letterbox companies in Curacao. The suing parties are Dutch trust bosses and corporate services providers, who promote illegally operating gambling sites of letterbox companies via Curaçao, which mainly target European countries. In essence, in these SLAPP cases they themself call ‘class actions’ these companies claim that masterlicenses and sublicenses are legal without disclosing who the actual stakeholders (‘sublicensees’) are, and without proving their legally respectable legal interests.
For both illegal sublicense verdicts of the Supreme Court in Den Hague (The Netherlands) dated December 22, 2023, click here and here. For both illegal sublicense advices from the General Prosecutor of the Supreme Court in Den Hague (The Netherlands) dated November 11, 2023, click here and here. For the two illegal sublicense verdicts of the Court of Appeal of the Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and of
Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba in Willemstad, Curacao dated November 17, 2022 click here and here. For all three illegal sublicense verdicts of the Joint Court of Justice in First Instance of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba in Willemstad, Curacao and Philipsburg, Saint Martin, dated October 11 and October 24, 2022 click here, here and here. Although the courtcases are mainly won by Cramm with several still pending, the publication of the book is still delayed.
Starting October 1, 2021, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including municipalities Bonaire, Saba, Eustatius and constituent countries Aruba, Curaçao, Saint Martin in the Caribbean, are expected to align offshore Egaming legislation, adding Dutch European gaming licenses to the ‘Dutch offshore online gaming network‘ adding new operators to the current 10.000+ online gambling licenses.
To this occasion, as a publicist and expert Cramm was interviewed by Bonaire Megahit FM in may and september regarding the latest Dutch online gaming legislation and anti-moneylaundring developments (here and here) for Bonaire.
In February 2021 the popular Dutch online newssite ‘Dossier Koninkrijksrelaties‘ interviewed the SBGOK foundation’s director (here). To translate, please click here.