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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky gave the task of Prime Minister Denis Sh...

Zelensky instructed Shmigal to deal with the licenses

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky gave the task of Prime Minister Denis Shmigal to check the work of Russian bookmaker 1xbet in Ukraine and to resolve the issue of banning his work in the country. Thus, according to the Union, the President responded to the petition of Ukrainians demanding to ban the work of this gambling operator in Ukraine, which gained more than 26 thousand votes in a week.

Recall that in the midst of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, March 30, 2022, the Gambling Regulation Commission has provided two licenses Aggression against Ukraine and who is suspected of working on Russian special services. In his response to the petition, Zelensky instructed the Prime Minister Schmigal to solve the issue of 1xbet together with law enforcement agencies.

At the same time, the President noted that the conditions of licensing of gambling operators introduced a restriction on licensing of those applicants who are controlled by residents of states who carry out armed aggression against Ukraine. Considering that your Betting Company LLC has submitted to the 1xbet work documents, which is registered with the Cyprus firm Navasard Limited, owned provide licenses to this applicant.

However, as previously stated in the downs, the commission did not see a Russian trace from the 1xbet operator. In addition, Zelensky also noted in his response to the petition that the restrictions on licensing of gambling operators are applied to those applicants related to persons whose activities are limited or prohibited in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Sanctions".

It is known that public figure Tatiana Lokatska filed an application to the National Security and Defense Council, demanding that you impose sanctions on all legal and natural persons related to the Russian bookmaker 1xbet.

As previously reported that the officials of your Betting Company LLC in April 2022, after receiving this firm's licenses for work 1xbet in Ukraine, police opened criminal proceedings on fraud and attempts of violent change of borders of Ukraine or overthrow of the constitutional order or capture state power.

Recently, a video was published of May 29, 2022, on which, under the symbolism of 1xbet, a Russian rap executor claims that in the darkened occupants of kindergartens in Mariupol, "Azov was sitting", and Ukrainians were allegedly "bombing old and children. In addition, as the journalists of the InformNapalm project revealed, Russian banks and payment systems are made for the 1xbet bookmaker.