Hi Alchemist,
I can only speak for my country, and we have grant of inspection of court files also in civil case, so If an online casino has no real office in my country with a summonable address, then I would write one single letter back to them or their money-laundering-specialist-lawyer to explain, that they are holding the short end of the stick in my court.
Such penalties are a psychological operation by lowlife programs, who believe, they can intimidate and blackmail their affiliates.
We had several cases here in Germany, where Casinos like Quasar refused to payout winnings of 100.000+ Euro, all with a Malta license. So much for Malta.
After Malta, the most corrupt country in the EU, without any doubts ruled by the Italian Mafia, after they killed with a conspiracy investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, mother of a son, with a car bomb on Malta on 16. October 2017, because she was close to publish the evidence of connections between Malta Government, highest level of Malta Police, online Casino Industry and the Mafia. since this Giovanni Falcone like assassination no one ever again shall tell me, that this industry is not evil.
I was the only one who has reported about this on GPWA, and they have been all silent.
All of them.