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Online games: Swiss Commission of lotteries requires more severity
In 2008, the Swiss lotteries and bets Commission, including sports betting (Comlot) has opened 30 documents of illegal activities and has lodged several denunciations. Comlot is an independent organ created in 2006 by the Swiss cantons to supervise lotteries and bets in Switzerland and approve the new games as online bets. Facing the boom of online games, it asked a better application of prohibitions. The Committee considers that unlike classic games of chance (lottery using numbers, sports betting and scratch tickets), the net benefits of these online games are not paid or shared to Lottery Fund and to the cantons sport funds as well as the Swiss sport. Most online games companies have indeed practice mostly since tax havens.
Comlot updates transparency in the distribution of funds. Online games which are subjected to any control present a great risk of dependence. The cost of this dependence could be very heavy for the Helvetian public community varying from 68 to 270 million francs per year. Swiss cantons are in favour of the attribution of one to three licenses for online games websites, but these licenses must be linked to charges and be valid only in Switzerland. These cantons are also approving a softening of the prohibition only if provisions to ensure the application of the prohibition of illegal online games are listed in the legislation.
Source: Poker 777
Wednesday, 02 September 2009
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