888.COM ENCOUNTERS ARGENTINIAN HASSLES
17 April 2009
City of Buenos Aires wants its residents
excluded from online betting websites, but is there an
international legal precedent for such a move?
The Gibraltar-based 888.com-Cassava Enterprises online
gambling group this week faces similar Argentinian legal
problems to those already experienced by international
firms Bwin and Victor Chandler in the South American
country. The problem is the city of Buenos Aires, where
the head of Attorney Office Number 4, Luis Duacastella
Arbizu, is claiming infringment of anti-gambling laws
116 through 118 of the municipal Contraventional Code.
Reporting on the issue, the local news service
Yogonet says that Arbizu has the backing of a municipal
court ruling in requiring Cassava to block residents of
Buenos Aires from its servers. Whether such a city ban
can be enforced internationally is a matter of legal
debate, but Arbizu has pressed forward with his banning
initiative on websites 888.com and 888.com.ar anyway.
Arbizu has also ensured the local publication of the
court's ruling in the media as well as in the official
bulletin of CABA, giving the gambling company a 48-hour
deadline.
Provincial regulators are empowered to
grant individual licences in specific regions falling
under their authority, which has enabled the Bwin and
Victor Chandler groups to acquire licenses in Misiones
province, but apparently not the populous capital city
of Buenos Aires, where the companies have encountered
previous legal problems leading to court actions and
appeals last year that are still ongoing.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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