Coljuegos, shared their accountable results of the 2018 where he shared his results both in precautions and in inventories what was the center of work this year of the entity, raids against illegality and much more.
There Coljuegos also take the space to discuss their strategies of 2019, which is based on three pillars:
1. More resources for the health of Colombians: Designing new games, and potentializing existing ones.
2. Promote legal and responsible gambling
3. Strengthen the management of Coljuegos
The main challenge they have according to Coljuegos, is in question of legality, in the first 100 days of the Government of Duque have carried out 77 operations of control throughout the country seizing more than 1,000 elements.
However, with regard to the online part, Coljuegos, is still developing new control strategies because it is aware that the online blockade is not enough.
In spite of this, it is important to understand and according to the Vice president of operations of Coljuegos, Federico Núñez.
"At the international level there is a principle of technological neutrality, which means that no access should be blocked via the Internet, we have achieved it in an exceptional way. But it should not be the only way to fight this scourge, we are working with the financial superintendency, to attack the means of payment directly "
At the moment, Coljuegos is looking for approaches with the financial sector and its superintendency, to make the blockade from the economic point of view to those pages that are not authorized. They will seek to identify operators who are not authorized and are operating illegally, to be the financial sector that blocks the means of payment, and not allow the use of their platforms whenever you are evading the payment of taxes by Rights of exploitation.
On the other hand, Coljuegos managed to visit 66% of the lottery operator companies, 40% of permanent betting dealers or odds and would invent 97.5% of the electronic slot machines in the country.
It is highlightable that the remaining 2.5% percentage refers to only 8 establishments of gambling that are missing to visit. Achieving a very important institutional presence to strengthen the ties with the operators, to individualize the SLOT´s with their corresponding NUC, traceability of the management of the SLOT´s with the online connection.
The entity, in its accountability event, made the launching of a new policy of responsible gambling, which will be called "play well, be responsible is part of the game."
This is an invitation that seeks to transform the sector to become part of the entertainment industry, through a legal, responsible and fun game.
The basis of the strategy is information sharing clarified Coljuegos, where it is sought that as much substantial information as possible reach both players and casino operators to work on the importance of understanding the reason for Play in establishments or authorized pages, and understand that the game should be taken as fun, which is somewhat controllable and the enjoyment of the player population.
Coljuegos recognized that there is a problem with the paperwork in terms of its viability, currently the entity works in a new development within its website that facilitates the follow-up of its procedures and the step by step for its development. It also assures the entity that, there is a problem when people settle different requests because most of the times they do not complete the required documents which makes them exceed the 15 days, that they have for the development of these applications.
This year, Coljuegos has attended 821 applications of localized games, 641 of promotional games and 10 of new Internet operated
Finally, in terms of monetary data, the regulatory entity increased its collection of portfolio by 40.4% between the period January-October compared to the years 2017 and 2018, with $1.055 and $1,481,000 respectively.
In addition, in the face of the international context, Coljuegos managed to increase the per capita spending in gambling and random games, from 74 dollars (2016) to 116 dollars in 2018, which means an increase of 56% that the Colombian population is making in gambling.
"This is a figure that fills us with enthusiasm, motivates all the management group and employees of Coljuegos to continue working together with businessmen, guilds, and operators," said Juan B. Pérez
