German authorities’ war on online casino payment processing continues unabated, while German sports bettors have effectively given up trying to wager now that the pandemic has halted major sports events.

On Monday, the Ministry of Interior and Sport in the state of Lower Saxony announced that it had “once again prohibited an internationally active payment service provider from participating in payment transactions in connection with illegal gaming in Germany.”

Minister Boris Pistorius, whose brief oversees activity across Germany, reminded financial services firms that they are “legally obliged to refrain from making payments in connection with illegal gambling – if they do not, we will take action.” The Ministry said Monday that “further prohibition orders are in preparation” against other processors.

The offending company went unmentioned, as did the company that Lower Saxony targeted last summer, although it was widely presumed to be PayPal, which announced two months later that it was suspending its German online casino payment channels. It’s possible that the offending company this time around might also be PayPal, as word surfaced this January that some German-facing operators were reinstating PayPal as an option.