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MARKET REPORT: ROMANIA
THE LOTTERY Loteria Romania has the state monopoly to
organise lottery games for both landbased and online. Under the Secondary Games of Chance law Loteria Romania can however enter into partnership agreements with other state lotteries or gambling operators.
Te Compania Nationale Loteria Romana (CNLR) was founded in 1906 and started out as a charity organisation with tickets initially sold via churches with small value prizes whilst funds were used for charitable organisations.
In 1999 the company was established and replaced the communist Loteria Nationala, which it was known as, and today helps raise funds for various sporting, cultural, arts, health and social organisations in the country.
In 2016 the total sales for Loteria Romana amounted to RON871.6m with profits of RON98.2m compared to RON38.2m the year previously. Of this amount VLTs saw the biggest share of sales with RON432.5m followed by the Lotto 6/49 with RON218.7m and then Joker with RON70.9m.
Te Loteria Romana operates several games including Lotto 6/49, Lotto 5/40, Joker, Noroc Plus scratchcards, sweepstakes and Pronoia-S. VLTs operted by Loteria Romana come with a minimum credit of RON0.01 and monthly
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winnings capped at RON900,000 and RON13,000 daily.
Te company has some 2,500 employees and 1,900 lottery agents. It’s been an unsettled time for the lottery company over the last year or so with General Managers being hired and fired fairly regularly!
Te company saw a new director installed in April 2017. Marius Pantea a former professor at the police academy and attorney at the Bucharest Bar and ONJN, replaced Catalin Chesa who was chief of the lottery previously if only for a few months also. However in July just months later Pantea was replaced by the Minister of Finance by an interim director.
Pantea wanted to introduce several changes including buying lotto tickets via the phone or computer, daily online re-branding games and bringing in employee owned agencies.
He sought to change the computer system which manages the Loto plus he wanted to purchase over 2,000 new terminals with a reported investment of over €10m. He also planned to introduce new lottery games and offer sports betting and offer daily lotto draws with tickets purchased online. It appears his dismissal was linked to these changes.
On August 10th Mihai Paduraru was named as
the new General Director but just 10 days later he was also dismissed. To date Danut Sporea has assumed interim General Manager post until another new appointment is made. Te lottery company has been involved in several corruption scandals.
CASINOS Tese can operate as standalone or in hotels of
at least three star grading and can be operated by those with a Class I licence. Tere are specific rules for the location of casinos and the set up and security options.
Tere are currently five operational licences for casinos which include:
Bucharest Casino is located at the five star 22 floor Intercontinental Hotel which has 283 rooms, stylish bar and lounge and restaurant. Te Intercontinental Hotel overlooks the Old Town with a striking curved tower. Tere are table games, 159 slots and TouchBet roulette, poker and lotteries. Slots are provided by Novomatic Interblock (TouchBet terminals), Casino Technology and EGT Bulgaria. It was the first casino to open in Romania in 1991 and the operator also runs the Grand Casino.
Te Grand Casino is at the five star JW Marriott Hotel located next to the Parliament Palace with 400 rooms, restaurants, bars, spa and fitness centre. It opened 10 years ago and offers table
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