Argentine prosecutor closing in on online gambling operators

Martin Lapadú, the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, continues to make waves in his drive against what he believes to be illegal online gambling in some provinces.

Whilst national politicians wrestle with the intricacies of regulation and licensing, Lapadú has been enforcing the suspension of domains, freezing bank accounts and identifying and prosecuting owners of gambling sites that take bets outside the provinces in which they are licensed.

One such organisation, Miljugadas, was targeted by the Public Prosecutor last year (see previous reports) and Lapadú has reportedly now tracked down the alleged operators and laid charges under the Criminal Code.

The four defendants are alleged to be associated with Eligra Solutions SRL and Miljugadas SRL, companies which own the Miljugadas domains, and they have been ordered to remain in the country until the charges against them are resolved.

The quartet is also required to report to the police every month, and is banned from communicating with one another until the case has reached a conclusion.

The Miljugadas case is just one that Lapadú is pursuing, according to local media reports; he has revealed that 120 other domains are being investigated in an action that has already persuaded some operators to shutter Buenos Aires activity.

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