Problem gambling cases up

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has registered 183 requests to exclude pathological gamblers from entering casinos between January and June. That’s 65 percent more than the number of requests made during the same period of the year in 2014. The large majority of the requests (168) were made by the pathological gamblers themselves and only 15 were submitted by a third party.
According to the data published at DICJ’s website, in 2014 the number of self-exclusion requests from casinos reached 280, four more requests than in 2013.
If the tendency registered during the first five months of the year keeps steady, 2015 will largely surpass the previous year in terms of the number of requests made by or on behalf of problem gamblers.
The law 10/2012 establishes limits to the entrance to and work in casinos. According to the law, the DICJ director can ban entry into casinos for a max- imum of two years for persons that request it. The request must be made by the problem gambler or by relatives. MDT/Lusa