Policemen want to wipe out criminal elements from the chance games business

Policemen want to exterminate all the criminal elements from the chance games business by bringing to account the economical agents which defraud their clients or authorities. The first massive verification of the gambling houses elucidated many law infringements. Policemen instituted legal proceedings against two gaming house owners, Viorel Chetaru, the head of the Trans-frontier and Informational Felonies Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs declared at a press conference, cited by Info-Prim Neo. According to Chetaru the massive verification of all gambling houses that belong to 46 economical agents and licence possessors were performed as a result of the numerous victims that lodged complaints with this Gaming Houses. Within the raids the agents for fighting Trans-frontier and Informational Felonies “had many surprises”, said Viorel Chetaru. The double-entry bookkeeping of several Gaming Houses indicated an everyday income of 100-300 lei, the real income constituting nearly 6-9 thousand lei. An economic agent that owns 28 Gamming House in Chisinau and 15 in the urban localities in the country was offering to clients unregistered machines with unpaid licence taxes. The tax for one gamming machine is 7200 lei. The tax losses for one year in this specific case constitute 1.7 million lei. Another surprise is the fact that the machines are programmed to eliminate any chances of winning. If normally gambling machines return 20% of the money spent by the client, the verified machines do not offer even this little chance, said Chetraru. In this context, the head of the Public Order Department from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mihai Cibotaru declared that this machines destroyed many families, and determined a lot of children to break the law in order to be in possession of money needed for playing in the Gaming Houses. The sick hazard is supported by the employees of this casinos who offer credit for those who already spent all the money, said Mihai Cibotaru. He explained that the owners of these places shouldn’t allow minors to play. Cibotaru stated that in the case this rule is broken the owner’s licence will be cancelled. According to the legislation in effect, supervising the normal functioning of Gamming Houses is the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the local public administration, The Metrology Department and the Licence Chamber.