Ludovico presented the benefits of the GLMS membership, emphasizing
the value of the education and prevention tools, which GLMS makes
available to its members and can help Lotteries strengthen their
relations with their national sports and law enforcement stakeholders.
At the same time, he underlined the importance of the GLMS Code of
Conduct, which can be used by Lotteries as a clear and concrete
reference for developing a responsible and sustainable sports betting
operations.
Ludovico finally introduced to the Latin American
Lottery Community the basic provisions of the Council of Europe
Convention on Sport Competition Manipulations, calling upon them to work
with their governments to sign and ratify the Convention, following its
official entry into force on 1 September. Ludovico also underlined the
importance of national platforms (as per article 13 of the Convention)
as a national cooperation framework against sport competition
manipulations and after briefly explaining the structure of some
national platforms, which have been already set-up, called upon Latin
American Lotteries to mobilize their states, sports and law enforcement
stakeholders in their countries towards the creation of an effective
national platform. After the event, Ludovico Calvi said:
“I would like to thank and congratulate CIBELAE for the excellent organization of the Congress, which gave the opportunity to the lottery community in the region to discuss key topics. The integrity of sports is indeed one of the most significant issues that the lottery community has to deal with nowadays and I would like to reiterate the significance for Lotteries in the region to join our GLMS family, helping us to further strengthen the “glocal” dimension of our intelligence work and show their solidarity to the 32 Lotteries across the globe, which have joined forces to prevent sport from being infiltrated by criminal activity”.
About GLMS (glms-sport.org)
GLMS is the state lotteries’ mutualized monitoring system on sports betting. It aims at detecting and analyzing suspicious betting activities that could question the integrity of a sport competition. Building on six years of experience with the establishment in 2009 of ELMS with European Lotteries, GLMS went global in January 2015 extending the network to other continents. GLMS facilitates the sharing of sports betting information as part of the collective efforts of its members in ensuring sports integrity globally, and is dedicated to effective cooperation with all key stakeholders: regulators, law enforcement authorities, sports organizations.
GLMS currently has 32 individual Members from 4 continents (Österreichische Lotterien – Austria, Loterie Nationale – Belgium, Hrvatska Lutrija – Croatia, SAZKA – Czech Republic, Danske Spil – Denmark, Veikkaus – Finland, La Française Des Jeux – France, Staatliche Loterieverwaltung in Bayern – Germany, Opap SA – Greece, Szerencsejatek – Hungary, Islenk Getspa – Iceland, Israel Sports Betting Board – Israel, Lottomatica – Italy, Sisal – Italy, Maltco Lotteries Ltd – Malta, Norsk Tipping – Norway, Santa Casa De Misericordia da Lisboa – Portugal, STOLOTO – Russia, Sportna Loterija – Slovenia, Svenska Spel – Sweden, Loterie Romande – Switzerland, Swisslos – Switzerland, Nederlandse Loterij, the Netherlands, Hong Kong Jockey Club – Hong Kong, Singapore Pools – Singapore, Ktoto Co – South Korea, China Sports Lottery – China, Loto-Québec – Canada, Polla Chilena de Beneficencia – Chile, Banca de Quinielas de Montevideo – Uruguay, La Marocaine des Jeux et des Sports – Morocco, Loterie Nationale du Sénégal – Senegal) and 2 collective Members (European Lotteries Association and World Lottery Association).
GLMS has 3 associate Members: Scientific Games International (SGI), INTRALOT and IGT.
Contacts:
GLMS
Giancarlo Sergi
GLMS General Secretary
Email: [email protected]
Evangelos Alexandrakis
GLMS Deputy General Secretary
Email: [email protected]
