Landlords subject to fines too
Legislators in the Russian republic of Tatarstan have drafted a bill that would amend the country’s gaming laws and impose fines on people caught gambling online, according to the RT News.
The bill proposes that anyone found gambling online should be fined between 10,000 and 20,000 rubles (US$150 – $300). It also calls for fines of up to 10,000 rubles for underage online gamblers, would impose comparable fines on their parents or guardians, and also would penalize landlords who allow gambling on premises they rent out.
“If owners or sub-renters of real estate fail to take measures to prevent gambling by renters they should be fined up to 150,000 rubles (about $2270),” the draft legislation said.
Kirill Grinchenko of the Media Guards project affiliated with the parliamentary majority United Russia party told reporters he thinks said the Tatarstan lawmakers’ proposal is redundant and unnecessary. “We are actively fighting online casinos and other websites that violate Russian laws,” Grinchenko said. “About 30 percent of all complaints we receive from our citizens are about such websites and access to these sites is usually blocked straight away. When owners launch mirror sites we take care of them as well.”
Russian law prohibits land-based gaming outside specially designated economic zones, such as the Primorye area near Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
