Columbia’s gambling regulatory chief says he expects to issue online gambling licenses to four more operators in the coming weeks.

In a new interview with Yogonet, Juan Pérez Hidalgo, president of the Coljuegos regulatory body, says he expects “four other companies” will join Aquila Global Group’s Wplay.co and Corredor Empresarial’s Betplay.com.co in the ranks of locally licensed online gambling sites “in the coming weeks.”

Hildalgo (pictured) appeared confident enough in these applicants’ chances of approval that he was willing to identify three of them, including the little known Colbet, a new local firm which reportedly teamed up this spring with Malta-based sports betting technology provider Airplay on the Colbet.co website, which remains just a ‘close to takeoff’ splash page at present.

Hidalgo also fingered the Colombian branch of Spanish gaming operator Codere, as well as the Bogota-based E Total Gaming, which at present, like Colbet, has little more than a splash page domain to its name.