Penalties for administrative violations against regulations on casino business in Vietnam

According to Article 44 of the Decree No. 03/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, penalties for administrative violations and remedial measures are stipulated as follows:

Penalties for administrative violations include:

- Warnings;

- Pecuniary penalties.

+ A fine not exceeding VND 100,000,000 or VND 200,000,000 shall be imposed respectively on any individual or organization committing an administrative violation against regulations on casino business;

+ The fine imposed on administrative violations specified in this Decree shall be applicable to organizations, except the provisions of Article 51 of this Decree which are applicable to individuals.

+ The fine imposed on individuals shall be a half as much as that imposed on organizations.

Concurrently, additional penalties for violations against regulations on casino business include:

- Limited suspension of the Certificate of eligibility for casino business;

- Confiscation of exhibits and means used for administrative violation.

Apart from penalties above, depending on the nature and severity of the violations, the organizations and/or individuals committing the violations may incur one or multiple remedial measures as follows:

- Forcible restoration of the original condition;

- Forcible re-export or destruction of gaming machines, tables and equipment and tokens;

- Forcible destruction of falsified, forged or counterfeited documents;

- Forcible correction of reported information and data which are untruthful, insufficient or misleading;

- Forcible transfer of illegal earnings from administrative violations to the state budget.

View more details at the Decree No. 03/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from March 15, 2017.

Ty Na

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