Also, the draft stipulates that complete examinations will be carried out, focusing on such factors as business relationships of the operators — including their subsidiaries and shareholders — and relationships with those who might join the operations, and whether there is debt involved.
The bill setting
out the details for the hotly sought after license is expected to be submitted
by the end of the year "at the earliest,” the newspaper reported.
The draft of bill obtained by Yomiuri says that IR business operators "are
required to have high morals, a sense of responsibility and a clean nature
because they will be given a privileged status with exemption from the
prohibition of gambling as a crime.” If the operators do not own a site for IR
facilities, the owners of the site will be also obliged to obtain the licenses.
The examinations of operators will be implemented by a casino control commission, which will be an affiliate of the Cabinet Office and will comprise officials loaned from the National Police Agency.
The IR Promotion
Council comprising experts approved the regulation draft at its meeting
Wednesday afternoon and will include the points of the draft in its proposal to
be compiled this summer.
Source: GMB / AGR Brief
