NATIONAL Claims that online games persecuted in the United States are legal in Costa Rica Prosecutors investigate alleged rule wash ' sportsbooks ' of Costa Rica UPDATED MAY 10, 2016 AT 12:00 AM EE . UU . inquires ' sportsbook ' 5Dimes for allowing illegal gambling Public Ministry says the country to legalize the activity to tax them
The Public Ministry ruled from Costa Rica to investigate whether illegal online gambling in the United States are made and if, at the same time, operations to launder money generated by this activity are addressed. Arguing that these gambling are not illegal in Costa Rican territory, the prosecution of money laundering probe rejects asportsbooks residing here (houses online sports betting), although EE. UU. does. The deputy prosecutor of Money Laundering, Alvaro Montoya, argued that business does not fit into any offense under national law and that, therefore, the money generated could be classified as an unlawful act per se. "What has come to the press is that money laundering is being investigated for allegedly are moving illegal gambling as background and that is no reason for research; ie it is not a crime in Costa Rica; betting, gambling is not a crime. So it would not be source investigate money laundering in Costa Rica, "said Montoya. He added that there is no law stating that gambling is a crime and that, on the contrary, since 2012, the sportsbooks are charged a special tribute to the entry into force of the Tax Act Casinos in the country and Business Link calls to Electronic Markets.
MORE INFORMATION Deputy Prosecutor Laundering: 'Gambling is not a crime in Costa Rica' "Hardly going to tax someone who commits a crime," Montoya mused. In EE. UU., However, online gambling is considered a crime and since 2006 a law prohibited use financial operators, such as providing credit and debit cards to transfer money linked with this activity. The authorities of that country pursue operations companies located outside its territory, as in Costa Rica, which allow Americans put money in gambling illegal means. For the Costa Rican Attorney, betting online would only be subject of an investigation for money laundering when someone is using that business to launder money from an activity itself is prohibited in the country, such as drug trafficking or trafficking. "This is like starting to research the Social Protection Board (JPS) because it sells lottery numbers and that someone could be spending their criminal silver (buying those) lottery numbers. But if you give me concrete information that an offender is betting on such an undertaking or are buying lottery numbers in the JPS, that we can investigate, not in the abstract may be being given a situation, "he said the prosecutor Montoya.
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