The parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policy will elaborate a package of draft laws to eliminate surviving gambling businesses in Ukraine and introduce them for the consideration to the parliament in February, Natalia Korolevska (BYT), the committee's head, said at a briefing in Kyiv.
"Currently we are preparing a complex method so as to eliminate all possible hidden dangers and I think that in February this proposal will be introduced for the parliament’s consideration," she said, adding that this initiative is needed because part of the gambling business has successfully moved underground.
According to Korolevska, the committee knows about shadowy schemes under which gambling business operates at present using loopholes in the acting law banning the gambling business.
"I think that 2010 will be a year of the total fight against the gambling business in our country," Korolevska said.
Some draft laws on restriction of the gambling business in Ukraine and allocation of several separate gambling areas in different regions were previously registered in the parliament.
The parliament passed a law banning gambling business and any participation in gambling in Ukraine on May 15. The president signed the law on June 23.
