The legal provisions that ban any kind of advertisements for gaming, lotteries and sports betting took effect. Those who see such advertisements are urged to call the police or to notify the Parliament’s commission on economy, budget and finance, IPN reports.

“We have many laws that exist on paper only, not yet in reality. To make sure that this will not be the next such law, let’s make joint efforts. If you see any violation of the law, call the police. Just do so that the state does its job. The police are obliged to ascertain the violation and to fine those to blame. Be our “spy”. Take a picture and send it to the email address ceb@parlament.md. The commission is responsible for the implementation of the law and this will help us a lot,” said PAS MP Dumitru Alaiba, who is co-chairman of the commission on economy, budget and finance.

The people are urged to denounce adverts for lotteries if they see such at supermarkets, at the post office or in any other public place.

The MP also said that such a type of advertisements was banned in order to protect the population from gambling addiction. According to his data, 1.3 million lottery tickets are sold in Moldova daily.