The Supreme Court of Chile accepted a protection appeal filed by the Polla Chilena de Beneficencia SA and ordered to block more than 20 sites online sports betting after declaring them “illegal“, according to the regulations of the South American country.
As the highest Chilean court ruled last night, these sitios “carry out gambling activities within the borders of Chile, without legal authorization or from any national tax authority, so they are illegal according to national regulations.”
From there, The Supreme Court requested that “the online betting systems that are carried out in Chile through the Internet by persons or companies not authorized by law —mentioned in this action— be declared illegal, The respondent must immediately adopt, or within the period determined by the court, the necessary measures to ensure the blocking of the online betting sites that operate in Chile and that have been indicated in this appeal.”
In detail, The Supreme Court affirmed that this activity is “prohibited” in the Chilean legal system, “covering the debts contracted in said games of chance as an illegal object, as well as penalizing those who make such activity possible as well as those who participate in it.”
At the beginning of September, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights announced that the National Association of Professional Football (ANFP) has a period of 30 business days to end its commercial relations with online betting houses, whose exercise is not endorsed. by law in the southern country.
The resolution is a hard blow to the economy of Chilean soccer, whose national championship has the Betsson betting house as its main sponsor, with a contract for around 2.5 million dollars for five years. Meanwhile, more than 90% of the first and first B clubs use the brand of some of these companies as a sponsor.
With information from EFE.
Source: Larepublica
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