Liability for gambling advertising will be strengthened

Responsibility for the organization, conduct, and promotion of gambling and risk-based games will be strengthened in Uzbekistan.  The draft law referred to in this clause was developed by the Ministry of Justice and posted on the portal for the discussion of regulatory legal documents.

On 10 November, "In connection with the improvement of the system of combating illegal activities related to the organization, conduct and promotion of gambling and other games based on risk, the Criminal, Criminal-Procedural and Administrative Responsibility of the Republic of Uzbekistan to "On Amendments and Additions to the Codes" was developed.

With this draft law, administrative and criminal liability for illegal activities related to the organization, holding and participation in gambling and other games based on risk will be strengthened.

Also, preparation for illegal distribution, advertising, display of a product promoting gambling and other games based on risk, or bringing into the territory of Uzbekistan, advertising, display, distribution, including in mass media, responsibility for advertising, display and distribution in telecommunication networks or on the internet is determined.

If a citizen commits the above-mentioned cases, he may be punished with a fine of four hundred to six hundred times the Basic Calculation Amount or up to three hundred and sixty hours of compulsory community service or up to three years of correctional work.

Those actions:

a) by a repeated or dangerous recidivist;

b) if it was committed by a group of persons with prior collusion, -

shall be punished by three hundred sixty to four hundred eighty hours of compulsory community service or restriction of liberty from one to three years or deprivation of liberty for three years.