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EL DIRECTOR GENERAL DE LA DIRECCIÓN DE JUEGOS de Casino y Máquinas Tragamonedas de Perú, Manuel San Román Benavente, ha anunciado que el país podría dar pronto luz verde al juego online y que el comité de control del juego está trabajando en un borrador de ley que permitiría el juego online en Perú.
EL ÁREA DEL TESORO DE PUERTO RICO NO HA descartado la posibilidad de permitir las videoloterías a pesar
de que el asunto se ha encontrado con una fuerte resistencia por parte de los operadores de juego locales, que alegan que la introducción de las videoloterías en la isla pondría en peligro 5000 puestos de trabajo.
EL OPERADOR DE CASINOS CHILENO ENJOY HA encargado a Merrill Lynch, la división de corporaciones e inver- siones del Bank of America, la tarea de encontrar un socio para participar en su plan de conservar el 100% del Casino Conrad en Punta del Este (Uruguay) adquiriendo en 55 por ciento que tiene actualmente en su poder Caesars Entertainment.
EL PRESIDENTE DE LA ASOCIACIÓN DE Permisionarios, Operadores y Proveedores de la Industria del Entretenimiento y Juego de Apuesta en México (AIEJA), Miguel Ángel Ochoa, ha instado a los legisladores a que aprueben nuevas leyes que regulen el sector del juego online en México.
UN COMITÉ ESPECIAL DEL CONGRESO DE BRASIL HA recibido el encargo de revisar la propuesta de legalización del popular jogo do bicho o «juego del animal», según el sitio web de la Cámara de Diputados.
LOS 16 CASINOS OPERATIVOS EN CHILE HAN registrado un aumento de sus ganancias, según indican las estadísticas publicadas por la Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego de Chile (SCJ). Los ingresos brutos generados con el juego se situaron en abril en 38,7 millones de dólares, lo que supone un incremento del 2,2 por ciento con respecto al mes de marzo y un 19,9 por ciento si se compara con el mismo período del año anterior.
LA LEY HÚNGARA QUE PROHÍBE LAS MÁQUINAS tragaperras en todos los lugares que no sean casinos podría ser inconstitucional según el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea.
COMTRADE GAMING, EL DESTACADO PROVEEDOR DE tecnología para el sector del juego, ha anunciado que su motor sCore G2S ha mejorado con éxito las máquinas de juego WIN- WIN, que funcionan en Austria desde el 1 de enero.
ASPERS GROUP HA PUESTO EN MARCHA UNA cooperación estratégica con Scientific Games para desarrollar los productos de mesa de esta última en sus casinos del Reino Unido, a fin de incrementar el rendimiento y el atractivo en las salas.
LA AUTORIDAD DEL JUEGO DE MALTA (MGA) HA aprobado la primera solicitud para un crucero con casino, recibida de Crystal Cruises, que está representada en Malta por el Gollcher Group. El destino será su galardonado Crystal Serenity, que fondeará en Malta los días 5 y 6 de junio de 2015.
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PERU SET TO ALLOW ONLINE GAMING Benavente,
The Peruvian Gaming Control Board has announced that Peru could soon give online gaming the green light Peru - Online Gaming
Director General of the Peruvian Gaming Control Board Manuel San Román Benavente has announced that Peru could soon give online gam- ing the green light and that the gaming control board is working on a draft legislation which would permit online gaming in Peru.
According to local press reports, the tax for online gambling operators will stand between fifteen to and twenty per cent. This will be significantly higher than land based operators which currently pay 12 per cent. The reason for the difference, according to Mr. Benavente, is that casinos help create jobs locally and they also have a number of "video systems and a number of controls in place.”
Although the exact details of the new bill are unknown it is believed that any operators offer- ing their services locally will have to have a domain name ending in .pe but servers will not necessarily have to be locally based. However the board will implement a system whereby it will be able to be monitor online transactions locally and in real time.
Manuel San Román
Director General of the Peruvian
Gaming Control Board
There have been a growing number of reports that Peru could soon address the issue of online gam- ing. Peru has seen of one of the most remarkable success stories in the Latin American gaming mar- ket in the last ten years. Thanks to the efforts of a newly established gaming board the gaming land- scape in Peru has changed from a situation where less than four per cent of gaming operations were regulated by the government to a situation where illegal gaming has all been eradicated and where all slot machine transactions are monitored and in real time by a central government-controlled server.
Today, tax income generated by the industry has increased more than threefold since 2007 and there are now 70,000 slot machines in 700 slot parlors and twenty two casinos that operate throughout the nation. According to the latest sta- tistics Gaming Revenue stands at around U$S100m a year.
Measures to approve VLTs continue despite controversy
PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico’s Department of the Treasury has not ruled out the possibility of allowing video lot- teries despite the fact that the issue has been met with fierce resistance by local gaming opera- tors, who argue that allowing video lotteries on the island would put 5,000 jobs at risk.
However, the Treasury estimates that allowing VLT’s would bring in additional US$100m per year to government coffers. In a state- ment the treasury said: “The incorporation of licences into a system authorised by the state would be beneficial for the gov- ernment not only due the rev- enues it represents, but it would also give players certain guaran- tees regarding the payment of awards and the proportion set aside for that purpose.”
President of the Recreation Commercial Company, Pablo Rivera Corraliza reacted strongly to the statement saying that: “It is no secret that the government is working on a project that will be submitted to the Legislature for a
video lottery system in Puerto Rico, which will be operated by a consortium of foreign companies. The Government, in an effort to increase revenues, is committed, at least, to three foreign compa- nies for the implementation of a video lottery system.”
According to Corraliza, the issue is made worse by the fact that negotiations with foreign compa- nies are already underway with- out the legislature’s approval. “The proponents of this new game are seeking the opportunity to circumvent the Legislature and implement it with a simple administrative order made by the Department of Finance, which is a mockery of our constitutional system. It is giving away our jobs and our businesses in exchange for nothing,” he said.
The statement made by the Treasury comes after a complaint made by the Spokesman for the New Progressive Party (PNP) in the Senate, Larry Seilhamer, who said that the Senate intends to make way for video lottery ter- minals in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary, Juan Zaragoza
“Just two days after Finance Minister, Juan Zaragoza, submit- ted regulations to allow these games to the Legislative Assembly, the Senate removed an amendment to House Bill 2421, which expressly prohibits any governmental entity authorising, directly or indirectly, machines or video lottery gaming machines outside gaming halls,” he said. The Senator argued that this was a clear sign that the government is already making way for VLT’s in Puerto Rico.
Rumours that the government had been preparing a measure which would allow video lottery system through a backdoor deal first began to circulate in March. According to critics the deal had been hidden from legislators because a similar bill had already been defeated in the last Legislative Assembly.
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