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Mexico – Ministry looking at Mexican crackdown

By - 14 August 2013

The Minister of Interior (SEGOB) has announced it will work closely with a special investigative committee to analyse possible changes to Mexico’s gaming laws. 

Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong has agreed to assist and work closely with the committee in order to investigate those casinos operating illegally in Mexico and help develop a new gaming act.

Calling Mexico’s gaming laws as “obsolete and unenforceable” the Minister along with other members from the ministry met the special committee which has been charged with the investigation of the federal government’s past involvement in the issuing of licences. The committee first went into session in April and has been charged with investigating how gaming licences have been granted in the past and to make recommend changes to Mexico’s gaming laws. So far the cross party committee made up of 11 deputies has heard that there could be as many as 250 thousand slot machines operating illegally in Mexico and one hundred illegal casinos.

During the meeting the Minister agreed to coordinate closely with the committee in order to undertake a comprehensive investigation into gaming permits so far. He also agreed that a review of Mexico’s gaming laws, which date back to 1947, was both urgent and necessary as “it does not contain the appropriate regulations for an activity which is far more diverse than it was over 60 years ago.”

Head of the committee Ricardo Mejia Berdeja described the meeting as “positive” and confirmed that “representatives of the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federation have agreed to work together to promote a new Federal Law of Gaming  which would more adequately regulate the performance of these establishments in our country.”

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