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Chile Gaming board grants casino license in Natales

The Chilean gaming board (SJC) authorized a licence for a casino to the company Casino Patagonia S.A. for the municipality of Natales, Magallanes Region (officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region) located in the southernmost part of Chile. This was the third attempt after two failed bids were declared void. The public hearing was…

Chile – Improvements to casino law needed says head of SJC

The head of the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) Vivien Villagrán has said that the board is waiting on the results of the investigation into alleged collusion against Dreams, Enjoy and Marina del Sol, in order to promote regulatory changes in the industry. In an interview with Diario Financiero, the official stated that there was room for improvement due to…

Chile- Lawmaker wants to speed up illegal casino ban

Congressman Frank Sauerbaum has presented a formal request to the president of the Internal Government Commission, Marta González Olea, to speed up the regulatory changes that will improve the control of the so-called “popular casinos” in Chile. Sauerbaum aims to speed up a project that modifies Decree Law No. 3,063 on municipal revenues, in terms…

Chile – Chile’s Gaming Board launches tender for two of Enjoy’s casinos

The Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SJC) Chile’s gaming regulator has announced the launch of the tender for two Enjoy casinos. The licenses up for tender are the Enjoy San Antonio and Enjoy Santiago. According to the information provided by the board, having met the 36-month deadline mandated by law, and after the required technical…

Chile – SCJ to relaunch process of licence renewals after delay

The Chilean gambling regulatory body, the Superintendency of Casinos (SCJ), has confirmed on its website on May 24, that it will be relaunching its process of granting licences for the operation of casinos, which had been suspended since July 27, 2020. The regulator stated: “On May 24, 2021, the Superintendency of Casinos (SCJ) will restart…

Chile – Chile’s casino association slams move to delay licence renewals by 180 days

Chile’s gaming board, the Superintendency of Gambling Casinos (SCJ) has moved to suspend the process of renewing casinos licences until October 18, 2021 with a hearing for the presentation of technical and economic offers set for that date at the Hotel Great Palace of Santiago. The board said the State of Constitutional Exception of Catastrophe…

Chile – Chile Casino Association slams Superintendency for moving the goal posts

The Chilean Association of Gambling Casinos came out fighting over the weekend with an advertisement in national newspaper carrying the slogan ‘You don’t play with the law,’ stating that the Superintendency of Gambling Casinos (SCJ) had ‘imposed a bidding procedure for casinos that did not respect the law, violates the legal framework and unilaterally changes…

Chile – Chile gaming association FIDEN hits back at gaming board

In a long running dispute The Association of Operators, Manufacturers and Importers of Electronic Entertainment (FIDEN) has hit back over claims that machines operating in so called neighbourhood casinos are illegal. FIDEN, denied the recent statements put forward by the Chilean Gaming control Board (SJC) saying that they were unfounded, were intended to confuse public…

Chile – SJC completes evaluation of five municipal casinos

The Deciding Council of the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) has completed the technical bid evaluation for five municipal casino licences. The SJC announced that the Deciding Council, chaired by the Undersecretary of Finance, Francisco Moreno Guzmán, had unanimously ratified the technical bid proposals for casinos in the communes of Iquique, Coquimbo, Viña del Mar, Pucón…