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Online gambling be included in the regulations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The Finance Committee voted on Wednesday by a majority of the coalition parties CDU / CSU and FDP brought in by the federal government draft law supplementing the Money Laundering Act ( 17/10745 to) by inserting some changes. The opposition parties SPD, the Left Party and Alliance 90/The Greens abstained. An application of the SPD was rejected by the coalition parties.
After the decision is for industries to be at increased risk that they will be abused for money laundering, special duties of care provided. Providers must order of gambling on the internet a money laundering reporting officer. Cash flows from and to play accounts will be audited by a computerized monitoring system, so that “based on specific criteria and evidence as well as in the systemic observation of a classified conspicuous behavior of the debtor and its money laundering reporting officer makes an immediate reaction” is. Manual search measures were not enough. For admission to the online play is not alone sufficient to register with a payment service, but the players need to create an account denominated in their name in the game organizer.Amendment by online-specific guidelines for the identification and verification of the player have been added.
The Union party was pleased that the federal government has become so rapid action.The market for online gaming is growing very fast. The proposed inclusion of the opposition from gambling halls in the bill would bring constitutional problems, since the supervision of casinos, the federal states had.
The SPD is the online gambling is not a service but a “rather difficult Auswucherung the Internet.” It was “high time” for regulation in this area. The spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group also called for the inclusion of gambling halls in the rules against money laundering. Similar comments were made to the Speaker of the Alliance 90/The Greens.
The FDP replied that the Internet could be regulated is limited. It also lies basically in the nature of man to play. ‘It is therefore also to online gambling. And since it would be better to direct the play instinct in the regulated sector to the unregulated place.
The Links Group welcomed the closure of loopholes, but pointed out that there is almost no German market for online gambling admit. There were almost only illegal areas. Therefore we expect the regulation is not much. The Left Party criticized the supervision of casinos would not be covered by the law. The speaker came to the conclusion that the money laundering law was 20 years after its entry into force is still not properly implemented.
Deutscher Bundestag press release link (in German): Geldwäschegesetz erfasst künftig auch Online-Glücksspiele (translated in English: click here)