Coljuegos for the month of June this year managed to raise $ 320,015,134,751 Colombian pesos, which according to Juan B. Pérez president of the entity, this reflects a growth compared to the same period of 2018 of 13%, having collected in the first half of In 2018, a total of $ 278,057,682,985 Colombian pesos, according to the regulator, it is expected that at the end of the year the $ 610 billion Colombian pesos of revenue that will allow financing the Subsidized Health System of Colombians will be exceeded.
“Similarly, it is important to highlight the behavior of online gambling, which presented the highest growth from one term to another, with a collection from January to June (2019) $ 29,796,728,462 Colombian pesos (63% growth compared to the first half of 2018 ) and likewise the behavior of the Superastro game, for which Coljuegos raised $ 44,123,308,060 Colombian pesos (13% growth), ”said Juan B.
With these resources they achieve large transfers to the health of Colombians and to the different departments of the country.
The departments that received these resources to a greater extent are Antioquia, Valle Del Cauca, Cundinamarca, Santander, Córdoba, Nariño, Norte De Santander, Tolima, Caldas and Risaralda
Similarly, this was the way in which the money was transferred to the different entities:
Curiously to these contributions, there is also a growth in expired or uncollected prizes, having raised $ 10,802,358,551 Colombian pesos, 21% more compared to the previous year.
It should be noted that this money ends up being transferred to health after the fulfillment of the maximum validity (1 year) that the winners have to claim their prize, as stipulated by Law 1393 of 2010.
The gambling industry in the country continue to show the government with arguments that despite the large amount of taxes that operators pay today, they are willing to continue contributing to the construction of a country. On the other hand, in the association that Coljuegos achieved with the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, MINTIC and the National Police Cyber Center, a total of 3,074 blocking orders for websites that operated illegally have been issued.
