Sports betting Colombia. Regarding the upcoming Football championship in Colombia, Coljuegos has received multiple requests for authorization of promotional activities and raffles that involve, as part of its game mechanics, to hit the winning teams and / or losers, to correct the performance of Players in matches, predicting the outcome of the championship phases, etc.
For the above, Coljuegos clarifies that sports betting corresponds to a wat of gambling defined as New (Art. 38 of Law 643 of 2001, modified by article 22 of Law 1393 of 2010) for which It is required that previously the operator exhausts a selection process in the terms of Law 80 of 1993.
Thus, any application whose game mechanics relates to events or sports bets, understood as those in which the participant forecasts markers or other results related to the development of the sporting event, constitutes a form of game of chance that does not Can be authorized under the figure of promotional activity or raffle. Promotional activities and raffles should not include betting on sporting events (Read So. Coljuegos gives his blessing to Online bets)
