The gaming industry in Colombia could not stay behind the fashion of the False Positives. Last week we were shaken by the abrupt news of the arrest of officials of Coljuegos supposedly to have participated in the commission of crimes against the patrimony of the nation adjudging contracts to ghost companies with ghost gambling machines.

For those of us in the middle, it was evident the lack of crime there, only to have seen the arguments put forward by the Prosecutor's Office because, when they supposedly found machines that had been confiscated years ago, they appeared to be working on existing contracts, which was serious Indication of corruption inside Coljuegos.

The explanation was very simple and with all due respect the prosecutor Ciro Lobelo had to focus his investigation in ascertaining if the platelets were original or not so to have discovered what we all have always known: some operators who give them of "smart guys" take advantage of registries of Import of companies that have sold machines in the market and clone, plaquetean Spanish word for: numbers that are known are no longer on the market and with those "new identities" bring to life slot machines that condition with CPU They buy on the black market and assemble what is known as a "clone".

By the time of ETESA, there was no law that forced to destroy the machines seized, in fact, when they were confiscated they were sent to a customs warehouse to wait their auction after being declared in abandonment, only until the creation of Coljuegos entered Force the destruction of the equipment but ATTENTION following the norms of environmental conservation not to throw wastes and to take advantage of the components that can be recycled or incorporated to productive processes.

The investigation lost its purpose because of the stigma of the gambling industry; Because at the head of all who participated dreamed of finding "the cartel of the cards" or something, worthy of a TV series that competed with "the cartel of the toads", when the answer was simple.

The ITRC has performed a praiseworthy work but should have been more cautious and collate as much as possible, the evidence not to have been punctuated by a scandal that in no way favored any:

- To Coljuegos because he put it in the public eye within 3 days of hosting the Ibero-American gaming summit and that it tainted his record;

- ITRC that lost credibility and its president because of this debacle;

- the prosecutor who conducted the investigation as this was one more of the false positives that precede his name and which adds to the list of similar cases as INCODER and others;

- us, the industry, which in this way continues to feed the popular imagination of betrayals, shootings and millionaires overnight because of a business that generates 100% revenues.

For those who are late and do not know what I am writing about, I land them: this is a column that tells what should not happen again to a healthy industry, for which we fight from the hand of regulators to be taken into scope, that as the longest-lived couples in society we have differences and that we build day by day a relationship that develops over work and trust.

This is a column about a False Positive ...