Colombian authorities have no way of knowing if a professional soccer player is participating in sports betting or not.
The United Kingdom's Advertising Practices Committee has banned the sponsorship or promotion of gambling and betting by celebrities through advertising, which of course includes football players.
English regulation is so strict that Colombian Yerry Mina was fined 10,000 pounds in 2019 for having participated in a commercial for the Colombian public with the betting house Betjuego.
“In Colombia the official sponsor of the professional soccer league is BetPlay, a betting house.”
The president of Coljuegos recognizes that the entity has made a very important effort in technology to be in line with the security demands of users, however, he recognizes that “it has fallen short, it surpassed us because the technological base of our office What it does are patches, but we have a project to make it more robust and have effective control with more resources and thus generate more health benefits.”
Regarding how bets are controlled and how suspicious bets are attacked, Hincapié explains that “in Latin America we are the most advanced in the regulation of games of luck and chance, we are intervening in what bets, in what amounts they bet, through what platforms "they bet."
“We are in Colombia, not in NASA, we are just starting out and we are the most advanced in Latin America…”
He assures that, unlike other countries, such as Spain, in Colombia “there is no evidence of a third party influencing the results of the bets, that is, there is no external influence to say that such a team was sold. There may be corruption due to a classification, as a Llaneros match was investigated at the time, but not due to betting.”
He warns that those who get rich from illegal bets “will never be able to legalize that money,” and explains that by law, the only ones prohibited from betting are “minors, and in the case of soccer players it is more of an ethical issue,” he says. Emphasis. Regarding whether Colombian Professional Soccer players are betting on matches in which they themselves are protagonists, Hincapié assures that with the resources available today it is not feasible to know.
"When people bet they have to do it with their ID number, but to know if they are a soccer player, or if they are an amateur or professional, it is very difficult and that is not done anywhere in the world, there will be recognized players who "If they like betting, now, I don't know if their ethics as players and human beings allow them to sell the games," explains Hincapié.
Finally, he concluded that “we are in Colombia, not in NASA, we are just starting out and we are the most advanced in Latin America. There will come a time when the regulation advances and does not allow a soccer player to bet, but a family member can do so, how is that controlled. Here the crimes are personal responsibility, without a third-party betting is very difficult, and it would be the responsibility of the Prosecutor's Office to confront processes and establish whether the nephew of such a player bet and won for a player."
In Colombia the official sponsor of the professional soccer league is BetPlay, a betting house.
