The President instructed to further study the work and advertising of the gambling business

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko instructed the head of the Presidential Administration and the State Control Committee to further study the work and advertising in the country of gambling. He said this at a meeting on licensing of certain types of activities on September 10, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti”.

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- What they are called: “twisting the goose” (the famous advertising slogan of one of the online casinos). BELTA: Everywhere you put these ads. It’s come to that, it turns out, it’s my family doing it. My family... I'm being abused every day. They are choking me to draw my attention to this, Alexander Lukashenko said. What is happening in the country: we all have goose spinning it. Please note, Dmitry Nikolayevich, take this seriously.

- What is this? We have an online casino, and a casino in general, and so on. I am already confused in these concepts, the Head of State added.

Head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Krutoy in response assured:

- Everything is regulated, Comrade President.

- Well, it is regulated, but our country has turned into a casino, the President said. — Some kind of “Fonbet” (we are talking about a bookmaker company operating in the Belarusian market). - Belta's note.

Ah. Lukashenko also addressed the Chairman of the State Control Committee Vasily Gerasimov:

- It's gotten to the point where you're bringing someone to their senses. They say, “You know, we’re losing money.” - Approx. BelTA). And they write such nonsense as if they will invest there, invest in some “serious” areas that we do not need at all. And indicate the amount that they will lose about 500 million dollars.

- This is a lie, the chairman of the KGC said.

- Well, that's the turnaround! Therefore, there should be no deviation from the interests of the state. And pay attention to these "Fonbets" and casinos. Yeah, they pay money somewhere, yeah, something else. But this does not mean that the whole country is curtained and hung, especially Kukharev (chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Vladimir Kukharev. – BelTA approx.) with all these posters and advertisements. We have a clean, beautiful country for the people. Well, there's probably something out there. According to him (KGC. — approx. BelTA) control checks, there is a huge amount of money goes beyond the borders of our state, — said the Belarusian leader.

- I know you've taken care of this problem. Connect the relevant people so that we have a holistic picture, and a decision was made. It is not necessary to rush to this money everywhere, Alexander Lukashenko summed up, addressing V. Gerasimov.