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IAG AUG 2021年8月 亞博匯 15 STRICT VIETNAM REGULATIONS SPARK RISE IN ILLEGAL FOOTBALL BETTING 嚴苛的越南體育博彩法規致非法足球博彩上升 請登錄asgam.com訂閱《亞博匯早報》 Sign up to receive IAG Breakfast Briefing at asgam.com VIETNAM’S stringent sports betting regulations have been blamed for a rise in illegal football betting, coinciding with the recent EURO 2020 championships in Europe and Copa América in Brazil. According to local reports, growth in illegal football betting – estimated to account for US$10 billion in annual turnover – is in part due to overly stringent regulations which discourage investment into the sector. Although sports betting was legalized in Vietnam in 2017 under a five- year pilot program, not dissimilar to a three-year pilot allowing locals to gamble in selected casinos, Decree 06 has proved to be overly restrictive by limiting betting to football, horse racing and greyhound racing. It also requires minimum charter capital of VND1 trillion (US$43.5 million). With football betting restricted to foreign tournaments sanctioned by FIFA – popular leagues such as the English Premier League and Spain’s La Liga are off limits – the decree has failed to attract a single investor willing to test Vietnam’s legal sports betting waters. 適逢 2020年歐洲國家盃及美洲國家盃的舉行， 越南嚴苛的體育博彩法規被認為是導致非法足 球博彩的增加的原因。 根據越南當地媒體的報道，非法足球博彩 的增長——估計每年收入約為 100 億美元——部 分原因是過於嚴格的監管阻礙了資金進入該行 業。 儘管2017年當地通過一項為期五年的試點 計劃實現了體育博彩合法化，該第06號法令被 認為對足球、賽馬及賽狗的投注限制過於嚴格。 其還要求最低註冊資本為1萬億越南盾 （4,350萬美元）。由於足球博彩僅限於國際足聯 批准的外國賽事——英超聯賽和西甲聯賽等熱 門聯賽被禁止——該法令未能吸引任何願意嘗 試在越南合法發展體育博彩的投資者。