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Argentina – Argentine legislator calls for stricter licensing regime
By Phil - 29 April 2014
A prominent Argentine politician has demanded that the government put an
end to the ‘indiscriminate’ granting of casino and gaming licences.
Legislator and member of the Radical Civic Union Party, Ricardo Alfonsín, said that: “There is no argument that can justify the fact that an activity has been facilitated with so much ease which functions as a trap in which the anguish and despair entrap the poor in order to enrich the rich.
“I hope that the President and the ruling party, which say they are all so progressive, recognise the need for new regulations when it comes to the establishment of casinos, slots, bingo halls and gambling in the country, and their hours of operation,” Mr. Alfonsín said. The member of the radical party called also for “a new tax legislation to halt and reverse the trend of the proliferation of gaming.”
The National Deputy’s calls for changes to gaming laws come at a time of growing controversy over the industry especially in Buenos Aires with the Justice department now investigating alleged irregularities in the casinos operating in the capital. The prosecutor´s office has received a complaint that there is a lack of online control over three casinos operating in Buenos Aires. These are the two ‘floating casinos’ docked permanently to the harbour while the third is under the racetrack in the neighbourhood of Palermo downtown. All three have been the focus of a bitter dispute between the city government and the federal government as to who should reap the tax benefits of gaming.
