“Thank you very much, we are going to interact with many friends and many people in the sector. This new space is important to be able to communicate clearly and to reach the public, which is the most important thing.” This is how the Coljuegos podcast begins, which launched its first episode yesterday and where Marco Emilio Hincapié talks about raffles and road machines, among others.
Why is it important to report raffles to Coljuegos?
If you are going to organize a raffle in your neighborhood, in your school, in your house, say to the gentlemen of the games or to the authorities, I am organizing this precisely to reduce that 1.5 billion in evasion, let us call on the citizens so that we bet on what is legal, as it should be, the issue of raffles, that is an issue that has been regulated by a decree of the national government in 2015.
Currently, when we see the growth of the illegality of raffles, we have influencers who raffle cars, influencers who raffle houses, who raffle farms, raffles that are also everywhere on ballots, people are raffling and raffling, so they became a problem, in light of that we presented a draft decree to the national government and that decree will allow not one raffle per year but 2 monthly raffles, it will allow for the existence of a raffle manager, who is the interested party, can be a natural person or legal person, and an operator, who is the one who is responsible to the with the games for all that activity to control to see that the necessary policies were effectively established to opt for the realization of the raffle.
There are several benefits that this new Coljuegos project offers, a way to increase our resources that currently, let's say there are some surveys that place us losing 1.5 usd Million a year in transfers for health, whether from the raffles.
So with this new law we say to the organizers "you are legalized, you have the authorization and you will not be pursued for money laundering" then those who are in that activity will feel that they can have a break in the resources, justify where those resources come from, with a legal activity with an activity authorized by Coljuegos and we will increase those monopoly incomes for the health of Colombians.
