Recall that the return to Ukraine casinos and slot machines are prohibited by Yulia Tymoshenko in 2009, this is probably the only dream Zelensky, about which he talked in the course of the election campaign and which is really brought to life. According to the law “On state regulation of activities on organization and conduct of gambling”, since yesterday in the Ukraine are allowed to place slot machines literally anywhere you want. For example, in law we are talking about hotels at least three stars, which in the Ukrainian reality means hostels and motels for truckers, as well as predict critics of the law, any other premises, prepare for a bribe as suitable for living. For the roulette and poker tables will need the room more high class five stars, but here, experts familiar with the Ukrainian corruption, anticipating the explosive growth in the number of luxury hotels on the outskirts of the absolutely non-touristic cities.
opponents of the rehabilitation of excitement – first of all Yulia Tymoshenko and the party “Opposition platform For life,” predicted the epidemic of gambling addiction among the most disadvantaged and the colossal corruption that is much higher than expected state revenues from the casino, optimistic about today just $ 400 million a year. This is a paltry sum compared to all of the state debt of Ukraine and ten times less of those that the government of Ukraine has already taken and intends to take when Zelensky. The only very conditionally positive for the economy critics call the effect of leaching from the household’s saving hundreds of millions of dollars brought from abroad by migrant workers – the main potential customers of the gaming areas. The other consequences rely solely destructive and not yet amenable approximate estimate.
However, not the fact that Zelensky even signed a law will work. The national Agency for combating corruption (NACP) immediately after signing the document Zelensky has published a list of articles that are guaranteed to create loopholes for corruption in licensing, taxation and control game objects. Worse, the text contains contradictory terms. For example, one article of the law delegates oversight of the gaming industry to Parliament and another government. Without clarifications and changes that require a new law, signed in a hurry Zelensky paper is fraught with lawsuits in courts of different levels, including constitutional..
