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Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá
Publicado: 2021-04-19

COVID-19, has the world's economy in mate checkmate by forcing them to choose between life and economy. When the increase in infected cases begins to be brought under control, new strains or mutations of the same virus appears.

 

In fact, for this reason many economies in the world have closed and including their casinos for at least a month in recent days, such as Argentina, Peru, Chile, France and others.

 

Although Colombia has not yet entered into these extreme measures, but the restrictions applied have managed to strongly affect the sector, raising the alarms of different industry players. Therefore, Mundo Video Corp has dialogued with different operators throughout the country, seeking to understand and know the reality they must deal with in order to keep their casinos and employees afloat.

 

On this occasion, José David Rozo (JDR), told us what his vision regarding the reality of the casino sector in Colombia with the restrictive measures for the operation in Bogotá, and the support of Coljuegos to them.

 

MV: With Coljuegos' new growth plan for this year, do you think that casinos are really being taken into account with the reality of the sector?

 

JDR: Well, with the new that is being presented if we are being taken into account from my thinking, because if it has helped a lot with the high cost of taxes that we previously paid, now the percentage they are charging is much lower despite the fact that many banks have discriminated against gambling, it has served a lot.

 

MV: What would happen if we entered a new total quarantine?

 

JDR: It would be difficult, complicated. The casinos handle employees, leases, contracts with Coljuegos so there will always be losses in the establishments, if the quarantine that happened was difficult, another more quarantine would be even more complicated because we are trying to survive.

 

MV: How do you think Coljuegos should help casinos this year?

 

JDR: The best help that I see is in the sense that they are not going to collect taxes for a machine without generating income, previously they were charged whether it generated income or not, but the machine now with the pandemic has neither input nor output. because having no charge from Coljuegos. I think this is the best help you can give us.

 

MV: Would you agree to pay to vaccinate your employees?

 

JDR: I would think that that would be on the part of the government since even the casinos pay everything for the health of the country. But if in case it were to play it would be very good for the commitment to the employee.

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Caixa Econômica Board postpones decision on lottery transfer. 

Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá

The Board of Directors of Caixa Econômica Federal postpones the decision on the transfer of lottery service operations to its subsidiary.

The reason was the pressure exerted by employees. Employees fear that this measure will be the first step towards privatization. The sale of a subsidiary requires approval from the National Congress, but employees believe it is easier to approve the sale of part of the company than the complete privatization of Caixa.

Fabiana Uehara, director of the Brasília Bank Workers Union, elected to represent employees on the Board of Directors, expressed concern about the situation:

 

 

I think the government is not aware of what is happening. This agenda must be withdrawn”, claiming that the government may not be aware of the consequences. After an intense discussion, they postponed the decision.

Political influence

The influence of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, was also addressed. According to ICL Notícias, Lira managed to influence the replacement of the person responsible for the electronic sports betting area at Caixa.

 

 

According to journalist Letícia Casado, from UOL, since 2023, Lira has exerted strong pressure on Haddad on issues related to the online betting sector.

To avoid friction with the federal government, the minister would have given in to pressure from Lira and replaced the person responsible for the aforementioned area.






Coljuegos wants the complaint to be expanded, but it is not investigated. 

Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá

A couple of weeks ago, the club's top leader, César Guzmán, made public several complaints about illegal bets that were affecting the team's performance and although he made it clear that the authorities were already in the process of investigating the facts, he recently confirmed that These are not progressing as expected.

 


 

 

 

 

In statements with Zona Libre de Humo, Guzmán affirmed that members of the team are still being “stalked” by criminals who seek to make a good economic profit through betting and that although they have managed to take disciplinary actions with those who are involved in these acts , the entire FPC scenario is being affected by this panorama.

 

Colombia, betting increased its level of influence in sports and match fixing.”

 

Without a doubt, betting has had an influence on the FPC. The team has been permeated by criminal gangs on the subject of betting, approaching the players. At the internal level, the due determinations were made in the disciplinary part with the people involved in this betting issue,” Guzmán assured.

 

And then what does Dimayor do?

 

 

Dimayor President Fernando Jaramillo

 

"This investigation is being carried out, it is not easy from the evidentiary point of view, it is not easy with the elements that as a disciplinary commission we have to have an investigation of these characteristics, but we have relied on the Prosecutor's Office, the Police, the judicial police and also Interpol because it is a transnational crime.”

 

The Dimayor has no interference in the world of betting, because our obligation and commitment consist solely of the development of the FPC's competencies,” stated its president.






Coljuegos, street machines, a business opportunity for Colombia. 

Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá

The company that manages the income monopoly of games of luck and chance issued a resolution through which it seeks that small merchants who have electronic slot machines (MET) operating without the respective authorization of Coljuegos can legalize their operation.

 

 

According to the president of the entity, Marco Emilio Hincapié, this strategy aims to promote legal betting and the formalization of nearly 100,000 slot machines that operate in Colombian territory without complying with the requirements of the law.

 

“In addition to the operations to seize machines and destroy them later, we are telling people that, in accordance with the 'Total Peace' program of our president Gustavo Petro, we formalize the electronic slot machines that, for the moment, may be operating without authorization,” said Hincapié.

 

On the other hand, it is important to mention that METS owners who continue operating without authorization could incur fines that amount to 80 monthly legal minimum wages (about $104 million) for each of the machines. Furthermore, this activity constitutes a crime contemplated in article 312 of the Penal Code, which refers to the illicit exercise of monopolistic activity for profit.






Online betting’s in Chile, continues to advance. 

Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá

Although the legal situation for online bookmakers and casinos in Peru and Chile has been similar for many years, the Peruvian government worked diligently to achieve the passage of online gambling legislation. Meanwhile, the Chilean government continues to evaluate this aspect in collaboration with various commissions, such as Finance, Sports and Economy.


 

Legislation in Chile continues to advance, and is expected to come to fruition in the coming months. At the moment, the sector is going through a difficult time, both for betting houses and users. Through a Court ruling, online sports betting houses in Chile were declared illegal, resulting in the blocking of multiple sites and the cancellation of sponsorship contracts.






Bingo operators will report sales and transfers in real time in Colombia. 

Casino operators comment on how quarantines affect them, Bogotá

From this past March 1st, Coljuegos will activate a new technological tool that will allow real-time control of health sales and transfers carried out by game operators located in the bingo mode.

 

According to the president of Coljuegos, Marco Emilio Hincapié, this new system is part of the technological modernization strategies implemented by the entity, by which means it is intended to have greater surveillance of the resources coming from the games of luck and chance, as well as of the transfers that are carried out for the health of Colombians.

With this new technological tool, the 90 bingo operators in the national territory will be able to report in real time on the entire operation of their games. This way, we can always know the real value of sales and the corresponding percentage of transfers to health”, says Hincapié.

 

Accordingly, the president of the entity highlighted that this new system will represent a tax benefit for bingo operators, whenever transfers will now be carried out based on real sales.

 

Of the total collected, each operator must transfer 12% of gross income to health. This represents a tax benefit, since, until closing, the transfers were calculated on the total number of available funds, but not on sales”, added the president.

 

Ineffectiveness and politicization of Coljuegos is leading to bankruptcy of casino operators in Colombia.

 

It is worth noting that, during 2023, local games, including bingo, transferred around $343,330 million to the health of Colombians, and generated around $215,063 million per VAT concept.





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