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HISTORY

Benedan history dates back to Sunday 11 August 1822, when for the first time was played in Antioquia the called "Lotería de Beneficencia y Asistencia Pública" created with the goal of raising funds for road maintenance and improve ground communications.

A century later, the Law 64 of 1923, authorized the department to establish a lottery with cash prizes, the utility would go to public assistance, creating in this way the "Lotería de Beneficencia y Trabajo". In 1936, it becomes "Lotería de Medellín, Beneficencia y Carretera al Mar" and it is established that the destination of 35% of its profits to the construction of the road to the Sea.

Until 1943, the Lottery was attached to the Finance Secretariat of the Department and was managed by the Superintendent of Rents. From the first of July of that year, the Lottery begins to function autonomously.

The Beneficencia de Antioquia itself is created by Ordinance 23 of December 20, 1954, issued by the Assembly of Antioquia. The Lotería de Medellín, Beneficencia y Carretera al Mar, become in Lotería de Medellin and is established that all of their profits and taxes of foreign lotteries would be for public assistance.

On November 22 of 1955, Benedan obtained legal status. Twelve years later by Ordinance 4 of November 28 of 1967 was created the Sectional Health Service of Antioquia, which one the Beneficencia transferred their profits to develop health plans in the department. From the effective date of this Ordinance, the Beneficencia works as a public institution of departmental character, with its own assets, administrative autonomy and legal status.

Then with the Ordinance 4 of 16 December 1992, the Assembly of Antioquia authorized Benedan to participate in the creation of Company of Mixed Economy or Industrial and Commercial of the State. In 1995, the Departmental Assembly authorized the transformation of Beneficencia de Antioquia from public establishment to an Industrial and Commercial State Company of Departmental Order.

In 2001, the National Congress issued Law 643 "By which is set the Financial Monopoly of Games of Luck and Chance" with which the exclusive power of the State is defined to explode, organize, manage, operate, control, supervise, regulate and monitor all forms of Games of Luck and Chance, and established that monitoring would be exercised through the National Health Superintendence. With this law Benedan stops transferring directly resources to health, being the Superintendence of Health in charge of managing and transferring these resources.

Currently, Benedan makes all appropriate commercial and administrative operations for the economic exploitation of their Financial Monopoly of Games of Luck and Chance, either directly or through third parties, selling Lotería de Medellín with distributors anywhere in the country except for departments whose lottery plays Fridays such as Santander, Cauca, Nariño and Risaralda.