Sports betting will be legally returned online in 2023, where the registration of people who want to place bets is expected to be done with an identity card.
"The licenses of these companies will be controlled by the Albanian state. There will also be criteria for who should play and who should not and the amount as well. Each person who will play will be controlled in the amount they will play. So not everyone can play as much as they want. A person who receives x lek per month, minimum wage, where did he manage to get so much money playing in one day. Where did this income come from? This is a way of controlling dirty money, so to speak," said Endrit Hoxha, Deputy Minister of Sports.
The proceeds of the gambling harvest will go towards investing in the sport. Tch has provided the preliminary draft drawn up by the Ministry of Education and Sports, where it is determined how this money will be used, where it seems that the priority will be the financing of national and international sports activities, school and university sports, the improvement of sports infrastructure, also for training of human resources and promotion of inclusiveness in sports.
The Ministry of Education envisages the creation of a national sports development fund from revenues from sports betting and gambling and will be responsible for monitoring the use of the fund. But who can be the beneficiaries?
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION:
"Beneficiaries of the National Fund for the development of Sports are sports federations, sports clubs, sports associations, sports societies and the Albanian National Olympic Committee, which meet the criteria of: Massiveness of sports activity; Inclusion in activities of special target groups; Participation and results achieved in national or international activities.