Chile’s progress on launching a regulated online gambling marketplace has been thrown into doubt, as the Supreme Court orders the government block access to all online gambling websites.
[Thursday], the Supreme Court of Chile upheld a legal challenge by state-owned lottery and pools operator Polla Chilena de Beneficencia that urged judges to deem “online gambling as an illegal activity”.
Voting unanimously (5-to-0) in favour of Polla Chilena, judges have ordered the government to block access to websites that must be “considered illegal until the government finds a regulator status for online gambling”.
The Supreme Court detailed the presence of unlicensed online gambling websites as a serious detriment to the Chilean government’s current attempt to launch a regulated online marketplace.
