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(Jamma) Confindustria Sistema Gioco Italia reacts with a harsh note to the interview given to Corriere della Sera in which the exponent of the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, stated that the revenue from gaming machines in Italy "goes almost entirely to the mafia , not to the State!”.
Claims “not only completely false, but also highly damaging to the reputation of the thousands of legal gaming operators who have been fighting in Italy for years, with the State and on behalf of the State, precisely for legality and transparency.
Confindustria Sistema Gioco Italia thus comments Veltroni, recalling that, in 2002, according to data published by the Senate Finance Commission at the end of a fact-finding investigation, the presence in Italy of around 800 clandestine and illegal "video poker" machines was estimated, with a turnover estimated at twenty billion, that yes, entirely in the hands of the various mafias. In 2012, after the massive effort of emergence carried out by the State and by AAMS, in collaboration with the legal gaming concessionaires, in Italy there are about 400.000 regular slot machines, controlled and connected to the network and about 4 billion in revenue for the State. Certainly pockets of illegality still remain, strongly opposed above all by us operators in the sector, by the sector control authorities and by the police forces, but these figures clearly illustrate a situation opposite to that described by Veltroni. We believe that the economic and social situation, today more than ever, requires a serious debate, which takes into account all the requests, but starting from true and incontrovertible data. Preconceived and careless attitudes such as those encountered in today's interview not only do not contribute to the solution of real problems, but only increase the confusion.
