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Availability of at least 5,000 slots in operation in Europe.
l Manufacturer of slot machines.
Te Law 291/16 legalised casinos, lotteries, gambling halls with slots, betting and gambling online. Te National Lottery of Moldova (NLM) is a joint stock company which was set up in 1994 and was created by the government of Moldova. Tis company became responsible for the operation of the conduct of lotteries, slot halls, sports betting and online gaming. Only the casino industry is now privately licensed.
Owned by the Public Property Agency, the idea was to create the monopoly to not only combat fraud, money laundering and illegal operations, but to bring in revenue for various sport and charitable organisations.
Two years later under a reform of the gambling sector, a government decision in April 2017, decided that the Public Property Agency should instead hand over control of the gaming and lotteries sectors to two European companies under a public-private partnership project.
Te eligibility criteria included: l
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Companies had to hold valid licences in the field concerned.
Turnover of the company must be €500m for the last three cumulative years.
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Development of distribution network with lottery ticket outlets with at least one PoS per 500 people.
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A valid contract for last three years with TV station with national coverage.
P68 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS
Tenders were invited and seven companies submitted their requests and by April 2019 two companies were chosen.
Te first contract was awarded to Novo Investment (part of Novomatic). Tey were contracted as the technological partner of the NLM for the operation of VLTs for a period of 15 years. According to the contract the contribution of the public partner consists of – the operating licence, locations and personnel whilst the contribution of the private partner consists of – the machines, system, service and maintenance including spare parts, servers and helpdesk.
Te National Lottery of Moldova (NLM) is a joint
stock company which was set up in 1994 and was
created by the government of Moldova. Tis company became responsible for the operation of the conduct of lotteries, slot halls, sports betting and online gaming. Only the casino industry is now privately licensed.
Novo Investment MLD is managed by Valentin- Adrian Georgescu and Vytautas Janulynas.
By the year 2010 there were around 320 slot halls throughout Moldova operating a total of 4,382 slots. Te majority were small to medium locations operating between 10 and 15 slots.
Currently the National Lottery of Moldova is operating approximately 1,000 VLTs in 16 locations.
Under this public-private partnership some 51 per cent of GGR from slot machines was to be returned to the NLM.
LOTTERY CONTRACT
Te second contract was awarded to Chisinau based NGM SPC Ltd (part of NGM SPC ltd based in UAE plus Bulgarian companies New Games and National Lottery AD which manages the Bulgarian national lottery and other gambling activities) for a period of 15 years for lottery and sports betting.
Under this public-private partnership project 75 per cent of the revenue from the lottery sector is returned to the NLM leaving 25 per cent for the investors and from sports betting 90 per cent is returned to the NLM.
NGM SPC Ltd planned to develop the Moldovan lottery into a network or 1,500 PoS for lottery tickets and 120 PoS for lotto games. It aimed to invest €6m into the project for the first stage with the perspective of registering a turnover of €40m during the fifth year of the contract.
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