The Lotteries and Gaming Authority has invited Labour MP Jose' Herrera to visit its offices to go through the various procedures and internal controls in place for the granting of licences.

The Authority was reacting to an intervention in Parliament by Dr Herrera who claimed that there was nepotism in the Authority ( see http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101130/local/rampant-nepotism-in-financial-sector ).

The Authority said remote gaming licenses were issued in a systematic manner according to law. The location of servers had no bearing on the issuance, or timeliness of issuance of licenses. To date, remote gaming licensees hosted their operations across nine data centres. Each applicant for a remote gaming license was free to choose where to host servers, provided that all the necessary operational and security standards were in place.

Referring to claims that applicants going through a particular data centre would not encounter problems in obtaining a licence due to ‘connections’, whilst problems are encountered by applicants opting for other data centres, the Authority said all applications were considered on an equal footing and were subject to numerous requirements such as due diligence tests, financial standing, game integrity certification, legal compliance, business continuity, information security, and a whole myriad of other technical and operational requirements.

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