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Tell that to the Indian government
https://cryptonews.com/news/indian-government-may-retroactively-tax-crypto-1851.htm
newest reports from the country are only adding fuel to the fire. The government is reportedly
considering levying a type of consumption tax on cryptocurrency trading and even mining.
However, this may also become a retroactive measure, demanding payments for past actions.
Regarding the actual topic of this thread it is obvious that they are not going to reimburse customers
from these countries. Besides, I highly doubt that they actively encouraged players from these countries
to use a VPN. They may have not really cared about the possibility to use a VPN, but active encouragement
by the operators seems extremely unlikely.