The President of Coljuegos, Juan B. Pérez Hidalgo and the Major of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño had an important meeting, in which Coljuegos told him about the industry and what it represents in Bogotá the mayor of Colombian capital.
"Bogota represents 24% of the national collection, which for 2017 was $ 213,540 million COP" Affirmed Juan B. Pérez
With this argument in hand and demonstrating how the other 14 Pacts for Legality have been useful with the departments: Valle del Cauca, Boyaca, Bolivar, Caldas, Guajira, Atlántico, Cundinamarca, Quindío, Risaralda, Antioquia, Sucre and with the cities of Medellín, Huila and Tolima, which Coljuegos has signed since 2017, agreed to join forces and join the pacts for legality.
Well according to the same president of Coljuegos "The entity in 2017 managed to destroy 3,933 elements of games of chance that operated without authorization in the country, of which 3,038 were electronic slot machines, the highest annual figure in the history of the entity.
In Bogota, 52 control actions were carried out - operations against illegality, managing to withdraw 306 illegal Slot Machines.
The Pact for Legality signed by Coljuegos, and the Mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño, will also have the support of the Metropolitan Police of the city, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, all the entities that make up the table of legality of the games of luck and chance, the operators, guilds and different actors of the sector of games of luck and chance in Colombia.
Among other topics, the structure of the game in Bogotá is distributed as follows:
It has 134 localized game operators, who together make up a total of 532 authorized establishments (21.2% of the national total) and within these establishments there is a total of 19,034 authorized METs (23.3% of the national total).
In monetary terms, Bogotá represents a total of 38% of the collection in localized games ($ 80,325 million COP), 24% in permanent bets ($ 50,218 million COP), 23% in novel games, which would amount to $ 50,218 million COP and finally from lotteries is 16% ($ 34,329 million COP)
To close, the president of Coljuegos recalled the strong measures that the industry is taking to combat illegality, because who "operates a slot machine without the proper permits of Coljuegos has to pay a fine of $ 62 million 500 thousand COP, for each machine and can submit to the judicial process that can culminate in a penalty of 6 to 8 years in prison.
"In the case of games other than those located, such as online games, the sanction is $ 234 million 372 thousand COP, for each establishment, point of sale, sale or vendor and can also be subject to the penalizable process in the penal code. " closed Juan B
