Abraham González Uyeda, Deputy Minister of the Department of Interior, affirmed that the illegal business of slots "operates a whole network in the country", which imports them with different characteristics and modify them to put games of chance in them. Interviewed during the conclusion of the XII State Meeting of Teaching of Local Structures of PAN, indicated that in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara..
Televisa demanded the Mexican government to take legal measures against owners of illegal gambling and betting houses that proliferated in the whole country. A 20 % tax on games and draws was approved by the congress last September, as part of a fiscal reform proposed by President Felipe Calderón. It is expected to have a harmful effect in the sector in which Televisa has just entered.
The Korean Ministry of Information snd Communication has announced that it will toughen its monitoring measures for online gambling including poker. According to the National Police Agency, 291 online gambling sites have been requested to be blocked. The Ministry said that it would be working with related Government agencies including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the National Police Agency and the Information and Communication Ethics Committee in a crackdown on online gambling, which is illegal in Korea.
A Tel Aviv court upheld a lower court ruling today, stating that any company operating a gambling website that targets Israelis is breaking the law, no matter if the site is run from abroad and if the company is registered outside Israel. The ruling was handed down in the appeal of Michael Carlton, an English citizen and CEO of the website Victor Chandler Casino. Note that no charges have been filed in the case as yet: the case is undergoing investigation.
Employees in the local gaming industry are now worried about their future, as a recent amendment to the Finance Bill, 2007 is likely to shut down the industry entirely. The Finance Bill, 2007 will be brought for the debate in the Parliament tomorrow. Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Conrad Enill, told the Express yesterday that previous forms of the legislation left some ambiguity with regard to the definition of a slot machine, which is illegal, and that this amendment of the proposed law was necessary.
Federal police Friday arrested the chief organizer of Rio's carnival parade, a federal judge and a prosecutor in a crack-down on illegal gaming and money laundering, authorities said. Ailton Guimares Jorge, the president of the Independent League of Samba Schools, was among 24 people arrested for alleged involvement with illegal numbers games, bingo parlors and the distribution of slot machines, police said in a statement.
Indianapolis – The Senate voted 38-11 Wednesday to crack down on illegal gambling while loosening some charity gaming rules. House Bill 1510 addresses a concern of local non-profit groups by allowing them to use their full-time employees to put on charitable gambling events, such as a raffle or casino night.
Inhaltlich geht es dabei um die Frage, ob Geldanlage-Angebote, deren Zins durch den Verlauf von bestimmten Sport-Ereignissen (z.B. Fussball-EM) beeinflusst werden, als Glücksspiel zu werten sind. Kern der Problematik ist das Merkmal des "entgeltlichen Einsatzes". Dieses scheint auf den ersten Blick nicht vorzuliegen, da ja der Anleger seinen Geldbetrag gänzlich zurückerhält und sogar noch Zinsen einstreicht. Diese Wertung täuscht jedoch.
