The unsatisfactory compensation deal made at the World Trade Organization has led to European online gaming companies to file a discrimination complaint against the US for its Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.

 

With the filing involving online bingo operations and games products, the European companies claim that the US Department of Justice is violating international trade law.

In a bid to maintain its UIGEA legislation, which disrupts the financial transactions existing between non-US online gaming companies and US customers, the US withdrew from its WTO treaty obligations.

 

With this, the final result of US policy is that domestic US online companies have an unfair advantage over their European counterparts. So with the implementation of the UIGEA, online bingo halls in EU and other international bingo online operators have suffered a lot.

 

And in the middle of all this is the Remote Gaming Association whose CEO Clive Hawkswood claims that they have no other choice than to pursue legal avenues in challenging US Department of Justice for its discriminatory enforcement activities against European online gaming operators.

 

With this, he asks how US investors and businessmen would feel if they invested in a UK based business following international law commitments only to find out that UK had not passed new laws.

This in turn forced them to shut their business and to throw them in jail for past activities while permitting their domestic competitors to follow the same thing.

 

It was on last Monday that a trade compensation deal was finally fixed upon between EU and US where European-based companies had access to US postal and warehouse sectors as compensation for lack of gaming access.

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Simon Bolivar’s Park of Bogota was filled to the brim on Saturday as thousands of Columbians gathered together to participate in the second leg of the ‘world’s largest bingo game’. This was done with a bid of leaping into record books as had happened last year.

Exito, the country’s largest supermarket chain was in charge of organizing the game. It was on December 2006 that Exito store won the Guinness World Record for the biggest bingo game.

They had managed to bring together about 70,080 participants to accomplish this feat. However it has not been confirmed if Exito had succeeded in making a new world record this year as yet.

Jorge Jaller, an Exito store representative mentioned that they had won the Guinness world Record for the largest game of bingo by beating the city of Los Angeles at this feat. They intend to give this same title to the large game of bingo being played in Bogotá again.

This game started at 5.00 pm local time which ended with dozens of Columbians returning home content with the Christmas gifts they had won worth more than 500 million pesos (approximately 250 thousand dollars) that was divided amongst winners.

One of the players, Nelson Sandoval, who had won in the game, said that he had joined the game just for the fun of it. He had never envisioned that he would win 50 million pesos, about US$25,000.

In addition to the prize money, gifts in the form of appliances, apartments, bonuses for spending in Exito stores and vehicles were awarded to the participants of the game. And to top it all, this huge bingo game ended with a large and interesting display of fireworks.

Bingo news from bingo reviewer.

Simon Bolivar’s Park of Bogota was filled to the brim on Saturday as thousands of Columbians gathered together to participate in the second leg of the ‘world’s largest bingo game’. This was done with a bid of leaping into record books as had happened last year.

Exito, the country’s largest supermarket chain was in charge of organizing the game. It was on December 2006 that Exito store won the Guinness World Record for the biggest bingo game.

They had managed to bring together about 70,080 participants to accomplish this feat. However it has not been confirmed if Exito had succeeded in making a new world record this year as yet.

Jorge Jaller, an Exito store representative mentioned that they had won the Guinness world Record for the largest game of bingo by beating the city of Los Angeles at this feat. They intend to give this same title to the large game of bingo being played in Bogotá again.

This game started at 5.00 pm local time which ended with dozens of Columbians returning home content with the Christmas gifts they had won worth more than 500 million pesos (approximately 250 thousand dollars) that was divided amongst winners.

One of the players, Nelson Sandoval, who had won in the game, said that he had joined the game just for the fun of it. He had never envisioned that he would win 50 million pesos, about US$25,000.

In addition to the prize money, gifts in the form of appliances, apartments, bonuses for spending in Exito stores and vehicles were awarded to the participants of the game. And to top it all, this huge bingo game ended with a large and interesting display of fireworks.

Bingo news from bingo reviewer.