ADM director Roberto Alesse said the agency recovered €72m from tax evasion in Italy’s gaming sector in 2024. In an interview, he said ADM uses artificial intelligence to analyse data and support decisions, which he said can strengthen checks and shorten administrative procedures.
The recovery figure and planned use of AI provide operators with detail on ADM’s enforcement and administrative priorities.
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Esportes Gaming Brasil institutional relations and products director Hugo Baungartner called for clearer rules and greater public understanding to support Brazil’s regulated betting market during a panel at SBC Summit Rio. He said uncertainty over regulatory changes and taxes affects investment decisions, including those of suppliers; ANJL president Plinio Lemos also cited legal uncertainty as a concern for operators.
Montenegro’s Ministry of Justice warned gambling operators, suppliers, advertisers and media that the new gambling law will be enforced without a transition-period tolerance in 2026. The law includes a near-total advertising ban, while authorities have begun enforcement operations against illegal venues and issued secondary rules, including on anti-money laundering.
CFTC enforcement director David Miller said at a New York conference that trading on information about one’s own involvement in an event would not necessarily breach federal insider-trading law, though it could violate an exchange’s rules. He said misuse of confidential information may breach a duty, while false statements intended to influence contract prices could amount to market manipulation.
Trading on information about one's own involvement in an event would not necessarily breach federal insider-trading law, though it could violate an exchange's rules, CFTC enforcement director David Miller said at the NEXTPredict conference in New York on Thursday. Asked whether former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro could legally have bought a contract predicting his own capture after seeing approaching US military helicopters, Miller said such a trade might breach exchange rules without breaking federal law.
CFTC enforcement director David Miller said the agency would investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute insider trading on prediction markets. He said exchanges have obligations to maintain surveillance and compliance controls and to list contracts that are not susceptible to manipulation.
Fecoljuegos is preparing a tax counterproposal to Colombia’s proposed Economic Rescue Law and plans to present it to the Ministry of Finance and Congress’s economic commissions, according to the report. The federation seeks different tax obligations for online and land-based gambling; its proposal remains under technical review, with no rates or percentages publicly set. The bill’s Article 41 proposes 19% VAT on gambling, including online betting.
Colombia's gambling federation Fecoljuegos is preparing a tax counterproposal to the Economic Rescue Law bill presented by the government. The proposal is under technical review and is to be presented to the Ministry of Finance and the economic commissions of Congress. Fecoljuegos has not publicly set the rates or percentages that the proposal will contain.