According to the executive, the estimate is due to the requests that have already received from companies interested in entering the market to join those already there: wplay.co, betplay.com.co, colbet.co, zamba.co and codere.com .co.
"The World Cup will generate a greater number of sports bets and we are pioneers in Latin America. This is the first country in the region to regulate online gaming. What we did was to build on nations that have been very successful in developing these, such as Great Britain, Italy and Spain," he explained.
According to Perez, the results so far have been satisfactory, having already reached nearly 50,000 registered customers for these platforms, and it is expected that, although development is still in its first stages, online gaming will transfer between USD1.35m and USD1.5m this year to the health sector. The prospect is that in 2018 that amount will at least double.
Perez indicated that one achievement of 2017 - in alliance with the Ministry of ICT, the Police and the Prosecutor's Office - is to have removed from circulation around 380 illegal websites that offered bets. "We need, if there are operators, that they are legal ones," the official stressed.
Source: GMB / Portafolio.co
