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파라과이 – 육상 기반 및 온라인 스포츠 베팅에 대한 입찰을 시작하는 게임 위원회

The National Gaming Commission (Conajzar) has opened the call for Public Tender No. 01/2022, which will grant a license for sports betting.

In a statement Conajzar announced that the tender will take place from September 13 to September 19, 2022. Potential operators will need to pay a fee of 60,000,000 guaraníes in order to take part in the bidding process which is non refundable. Only one operator will be granted a licence.    

The formal opening of bids will take place at the Conajzar Offices on October 31. 

Sports betting is permitted under Paraguay’s gaming laws which 1997 년으로 거슬러 올라갑니다. Sports betting used to be limited to a single location attached to a racetrack. The expansion began in 2015 after CONAJZAR announced that a sport betting tender would be launched in the near future as the board began to look at opening up the market. Since then sports betting in Paraguay has proven 매우 논란의 여지가 있는.

현지 회사 Daruma Sam은 마지막 경기에 앞서 스포츠 베팅을 제공할 독점권을 부여 받았습니다. FIFA 월드컵 for five years. Under the terms of the contract 다루마 샘 had the obligation to open as many as 200 sports betting shops throughout Paraguay. In February 2018, the Comptroller General of the Republic of Paraguay (CGR) recommended that the bidding process for sports betting be declared void.

Three complaints were put forward alleging that the bidding process had been prepared with the intention of favouring one of the participants over the others. Accusations alleged that the tender had been stacked in favour of Daruma Sam SA which has ties to local government officials as well as members of the gaming board itself, according to local news sources. The CGR had also argued that the tender was monopolistic in design and was therefore incompatible with the constitution.