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Argentina – Betsson granted online licence in Cordoba
By James - 7 februari 2023
Betsson, through subsidiaries, has been granted an online gaming license in the province of Cordoba in Argentina, which is the third license for the Group in Argentina. The new license, granted to Betsson and its partner Casino de Victoria, is one out of eight licenses that have been awarded by the local regulator Loteria de Cordoba enligt ett pressmeddelande.
The cooperation between international online gaming operator Betsson and Casino de Victoria, a leading land-based operator in Argentina and part of Grupo Mautone, started back in 2019. The two companies joined forces to work on the applications for online gaming licenses in the Province of Buenos Aires and in the City of Buenos Aires, both of which have been granted and operations were launched during 2022.
Pontus Lindwall, President and CEO of Betsson AB, said: “We are very pleased to have received a license to operate in the locally regulated market in the province of Cordoba, together with our partner, Casino de Victoria. When merging their long experience in the Argentinean market with our know-how in online gaming, we can truly reach our ambition of becoming a market leader in this rapidly growing online market.”
Regeringen antog regler som ger nätkasinon och sportspel grönt ljus i maj 2022. I september förvalde provinsen åtta företag att driva onlinespel. Både argentinska och utländska företag bjöds in att delta i upphandlingen medan The Córdoba lotteri kommer att övervaka onlinespel.
The process though has been beset with delays as online gambling was supposed to be underway before the World Cup. However stadsförordning 11,684 regler om att spel är olagligt i stadsgränsen. Som ett resultat av detta har Córdoba kommun betonat att kommunala regler hindrar hasardspel online från att fortsätta, även om de inte gav ytterligare detaljer eller utfärdade några uttalanden om saken när de konsulterades av lokal press.
In addition in December after filing a complaint with the domstolar i Córdoba, Rådman Juan Pablo Quinteros demanded that the mayor of the city of the provincial capital Martin Llaryora, slutligen upphäva lagen som skulle tillåta onlinespel i hela provinsen.
Rådmannen grundade sina argument på en förordning som förbjuder hasardspel inom en radie av 20 kilometer från det centrala San Martín-torget, i staden Córdoba.
