The French casino group Barrière, part of a group of several gaming companies that successful pressured the Andorran Gaming Control Board (CRAJ) to withdraw its award of a casino license to the Andorran company Jocs SA, is now suing the board claiming it should be awarded the license.
Barrière and its partner Lleure 3D came in second to Jocs SA last year. The partnership claims that it has “everything that is legally requested” to begin building and eventually managing the principality’s one authorized casino.
The company claims it has land lined up and argues that the board is required to award the license. The location is considered very desirable with a lot of potential.
An attorney for Barrière claims that the wording of the tender “clearly state that it has the obligation to grant the license and can only not do so when there is a public interest reason not to.”
Six weeks ago the Andorran Gaming Control Board (CRAJ) voted to retract its awarding of the license to Jocs SA after finding “deficiencies” in the information that Jocs provided last summer and that it didn’t comply with regulations for the bid.
It also discovered that Jocs’s architectural project differed significantly between the initial design and the final one. The first one included elements that helped Jocs win the tender.
