He National Government sent a request to Goalparent company that owns the social networks Facebook and Instagram, in which the Colombian content creators Yeferson Cossio; Daneidy Barrera, ‘Epa Colombia’, and Carlos Mauricio Gómez, ‘La Liendra’.
Likewise, as was able to establish the EL TIEMPO Investigative Unitcontrol management of illegal operations of Colgames he asked the Police Cyber Center the blocking of the social media profiles of the ‘influencers’ already mentioned, as a result of the publication of illegal bets that the ‘influencers’ have been promoting through their networks.
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In fact, the same newspaper had revealed a month ago that Coljuegos was putting the magnifying glass on Cossio, Barrera and Gómez, as well as Javier Arias Stunt, young man who took a Tesla Cybertruck truck to Necoclí (Antioquia).
Yeferson Cossio
Likewise, EL TIEMPO was able to learn that Marco Emilio Hincapié, head of the entitywas the one who asked the security company to block the accounts. Mark Zuckerberg.
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“We have asked the multinational Meta to block these and other profiles that are dedicated to operating games of luck and chance without authorization from the State, or that promote foreign betting houses that do not pay the respective exploitation rights in our country.”, assured Hincapié.
Epa Colombia
And he added: “We estimate that, each year, nearly $70,000 million are lost for the health of Colombians due to illegal raffles. Therefore, it is essential that multinationals like Meta join the fight against this criminal behavior.”.
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Coljuegos assured the newspaper that, apart from the blocking requests, The entity is carrying out 35 administrative sanctioning processes against influencers and companies for the alleged illegal operation of games of luck and chance. Likewise, they are investigating 79 profiles of people who have not been able to be identified.
The Liendra
“In addition to these profiles, during our administration we have issued 7,631 requests to block websites that operated games illegally. This indicates that, for the first time in the history of the entity, we are forcefully confronting illegal virtual bets that embezzle the health system.”, assured Hincapié.
And they added that the operation of games of luck and chance without authorization is a crime contemplated in the Penal Code.
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*With information from EL TIEMPO – INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
