The State Duma allowed to create gambling zones in the Crimea and in Sochi

The State Duma adopted in the second and third final readings the law on the creation of gambling zones in Crimea and Sochi, RIA Novosti reports . The boundaries of the gambling zone of the Krasnodar Territory will be established by the Rosia government on the basis of proposals of local authorities. In Crimea, this decision will be made by the regional authorities themselves.

Earlier, the authorities of the occupied territory spoke of two options for placing the zone. Either it will be dispersed according to the peninsula, or the local Las Vegas will be built on the subtropical southern coast of Crimea, next to Yalta and Alushta.

The billwas introduced by President Vladimir Putin in April. Initially, he only belonged to the Crimea. By the second reading of the document, the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy adopted amendments regarding Sochi, Vedomosti said on Friday. The committee members approved them unanimously, the sources of the publication say.

The amendments give the government the right to create in the Krasnodar Territory the gambling zone in the territory of Olympic facilities, the construction of which was not carried out at the expense of the Olympstroy state corporation .. Another gambling zone in the region in Anapa - in this case will be closed.

The amendments were made to the State Duma of the Dominos deputy, the ex-champion of the world on chess Anatoly Karpov. Meanwhile, a certain federal official calls the actual initiator of their development. It was reported that at the beginning of this week, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak introduced Putin with a proposal to create a gambling zone in Sochi. “If the Duma committee held an amendment about Sochi, then a signal from the administration came that the idea of ​​the government was supported,” the source said.

According to other federal officials, the government intends to open the gambling zone on the territory of the Gornaya Karusel complex in the village of Esto-Sadok in Krasnaya Polyana. This complex belongs to the company "Krasnaya Polyana", 92 percent of which Sberbank owns. A certain employee of the presidential administration confirmed that the gambling zone is likely to really appear there.

The representative of Sberbank refused to comment. Meanwhile, the source of Vedomosti, close to the bank, called the idea of ​​reasonable. He recalled that the president of Sberbank in the winter addressed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with the relevant proposal, but the head of government did not support him then.

In December 2013, the media, on the contrary, reported that Medvedev proposed to open the gambling zone in Sochi to load the Olympic objects built there after the end of the games. However, later on the same day, Prime Minister’s press secretary Natalya Timakova denied this information . According to the official, "the idea was expressed by one of the representatives of the banking community," but did not receive support. Gref Timakov did not name the surname.