A special Parliamentary Commission in the Republic of Georgia is reportedly considering a total ban on online gambling in the country.
According to Deputy Finance Minister of Georgia, Lasha Khutsishvili, the measures are still being discussed and no decision has been made.
“We analyze the world experience to understand how effective are those or other measures taken with respect to online gaming,” Khutsishvili said in a published local report. “The international practice shows that at present there are no effective mechanisms to actually prohibit online games. Millions are spent from the state budget on such measures, but in vain.”
Kutsishvili said in his opinion, such bans don’t work as modern technologies make them easy to circumvent.
“The Finance Ministry is also considering this issue from the point of view of fiscal policy, full control over the Internet is associated with very high costs,” the deputy minister said.
