The illegal chance causes a strong impact on the resources of the Colombians that go destined to the health of the same,
"All that money that is left to collect we need it for the construction and the improvement of the hospital infrastructure"
Said Governor Eduardo Verano de la Rosa. Point-of-sale illegal sales captured about $ 10 billion each year. In the Department of the Atlantic in 2015, they moved in the illegal game 13500 million COP.
Governor Verano, under Decree 000041 of 2017, constituted the committee to strengthen prevention and control schemes in the Atlantic department. This Committee will be in charge of adopting the strategy to combat illegal chance in the areas of prevention, assistance, prosecution and criminal prosecution; It will also promote and coordinate the work of all the institutions against this crime and develop effective actions aimed at increasing the disarticulation of networks dedicated to this business.
"We want to generate activities that contribute to the training and assistance, in addition, to spread and raise awareness about the problem of illegal chance and its affectation to the health system and users because all that money that is left to collect we need it for the construction and the Improvement of hospital infrastructure "
Juan Carlos Muñiz Pacheco, Secretary of the Treasury of the Government of the Atlantic, said that from the Departmental Administration work is being done to sell illegal chance sellers to the concessionaire Ganar and bet on legality.
"We had the backing of the authorities, in February we were able to dismantle a band dedicated to this crime that, according to the investigations, caused losses of around $ 46,000 million in Atlántico, Sucre and Bolívar. Today these people have a lawsuit against them and they respond to justice" said Muñiz Pacheco
