Games: Logical, good comm. investigation into illegal gambling, willing to cooperate

The online gaming concessionaires positively evaluate the initiative of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into illegal gaming and are also willing to collaborate to offer any useful contribution to improve the tools to combat illegal gaming and to protect the legal one. “We accept with positivity and confidence – declares Moreno Marasco president of Logico – the establishment of a commission of inquiry on illegal gambling which, acting in a complementary and synergistic way with the Anti-Mafia commission, focuses on measures to contrast illegal gambling, also questioning the effectiveness of the measures introduced in recent years or still awaiting implementation “. “I am referring – he explains – in the first case, to the ban on advertising, launched without any scientific basis, which not only did not produce the desired results in combating pathological gambling, but also granted further space to illegal online gambling. The ban should therefore be overcome by a serious regulation of advertising, restarting the virtuous path on the subject, interrupted after the so-called Balduzzi decree “.” On the other hand – warns Marasco – instead, I remember that, although it was provided for by the Fiscal Decree 2019, it is not the instrument of blocking international transactions has never been implemented, the only concrete obstacle to illegality in the network “.” And in conclusion – he underlines – the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry will finally be able to express itself also on the project of the new call for tenders for gaming concessions online, thus defusing some potential critical issues: not only the drastic reduction in the number of concessions to less than half of those lle currently in progress, but also the unprecedented and inappropriate auction-based mechanism, against a consideration of at least 10 times higher than the previous tenders. Halving the number of concessionaires, however, means weakening competition and loosening user protection. “The public objective coincides with that of concessionaires: to combat gambling addiction and improve consumer protection. From this last point of view, online gaming legal can be a model for the whole sector: thanks to the technology and the capillary control that derives from it, it is able to block the way to the game of minors, money laundering and problem gambling.