Two weeks ago, at the Hotel Tryp in Medellín, the National Corporation of Entrepreneurs of Luck and chance Games (Cornazar), together with the Association of Compliance Officials of Localized and Novel Gambling and Luck Games, (Asojul), made the Second National Meeting of Compliance Officers.
It was also the opportunity to launch the software Prevesoft, the first solution made in Colombia that helps companies of the gambling industry to make dynamic and online consultations, in order to detect risky operations with greater agility and comply with national regulations.
According to Hernán Mejía, commercial manager of the brand, it was identified that in Colombia, technological advances to prevent the risk of money laundering and the financing of terrorism were almost non-existent in Colombia.
All sectors of the economy have a risk but gambling sector has improved, as recognized by the National Risk Assessment 2016 who placed it (gambling industry) at medium risk level. It got better score or position than others, such as mining, accountants, lawyers and soccer. (READ SO: COLOMBIA 22ND POSITION ON WORLD´S MONEY ANTI LAUNDRY RANKING)
"Today we can say that 100 percent of the operators of gambling industry in the country have an integrated system to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing," said the vice president of Operations of Coljuegos, Luis Alfredo Gómez Gutiérrez.
The bet is that, in each casino, each employee, of the approx. 2,500 establishments in the country, knows the regulations, the application, check the clients and can detect if any of them should be on a restrictive list.
"We have to continue improving and training all employees and entrepreneurs in the sector, so they can have a transparent sector and the stigma they had can be surpass with facts" said Gómez.
