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During this conference, the speakers presented the phenomenon and the operating methods used in the field of illegal sports betting, sharing good practices and identifying concrete solutions to combat this scourge, indicates a press release from the Council of Europe Office in Morocco.
The conference, organized with the support of the ACT cooperation project (“Addressing Competitions’ Manipulation Together”) and the MDJS, brought together many participants from the region (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Tunisia and Uganda) alongside Moroccan participants and guests representing governments, gaming regulatory authorities, law enforcement, betting operators, Olympic committees and sports federations, notes the same source.
The Macolin Convention is the only international law instrument on the manipulation of sports competitions to which all countries in the world can adhere. It requires public authorities to cooperate with sports organisations, betting operators and competition organisers to prevent, detect and sanction the manipulation of sports competitions. It provides a common legal framework for effective international cooperation to address this global threat.
In his opening speech, Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, said: “The Moroccan national platform was created in May 2023 with the support of the Council of Europe as part of the ACT program. Its structures and operating mode are currently being developed and aligned. An important workshop to finalize this work will be devoted to it the day after tomorrow. The coordination of the national platform is ensured by my ministerial department via the Sports Directorate and I am personally very committed to the subject. I take this opportunity to thank all the institutions mobilized in this fight as well as the Council of Europe.”
The conference will be followed, on 8 and 9 November, by the fifth meeting of the Council of Europe network of national platforms against the manipulation of sports competitions, also known as the Copenhagen Group.
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