A Bari investigating judge revoked a bar owner's house-arrest order in a case concerning alleged money laundering linked to gambling, reportedly. The judge found no continuing need for the precautionary measure, but barred him from conducting business for one year; the prosecutor supported the defence request.
The ruling lifts house arrest but leaves the bar owner unable to conduct business for a year.
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US Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath ordered Papaya Gaming Inc. on 27 October to stop transferring assets from US accounts to offshore holdings. The court also requires ordinary-course transactions to be reported to the US trustee and pre-funded at 115%, and bars payments to affiliates and insiders. Papaya is due to present a revised payment outline in the coming days, before a temporary stay expires on 25 November.
On Oct. 27, US Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath told Papaya to stop shifting assets from its US accounts into offshore holdings. A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge has barred Papaya Gaming from sending assets abroad while the company restructures its debt in Israel.
French police are reportedly investigating suspicious bets on Polymarket linked to the latest Ballon d’Or. Twelve accounts allegedly staked over 264m euro on the order of the first five finishers, with a reported profit of almost 200m dollars. France Football contacted police after receiving a warning before the final rankings were announced.
French police are reportedly investigating suspicious bets on Polymarket linked to the latest Ballon d’Or, placed from twelve accounts. The accounts were allegedly created by the same person between 1 and 20 October, just three days after the jury closed voting.
Utah has summoned Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara to appear in Salt Lake City on 4 December over 14 criminal charges filed by the state’s attorney general. Separately, the CFTC approved Sporttrade as a designated contract market, following its derivatives clearing organisation approval in mid-October; Sporttrade said it is onboarding brokers including Fliff.
Tarek Mansour, who serves as chief executive, and Luana Lopes Lara, the chief operating officer, are the co-founders of Kalshi facing 14 criminal charges in Utah state court. The state's attorney general, Derek Brown, brought 13 felony counts plus a single misdemeanor against the company in a late-October filing that also identified Mansour and Lara as co-defendants. An initial arraignment in Salt Lake City is scheduled for 4 December. Daniel Wallach wrote in a post that the company must "personally appear" at 8:30 a.m. that day before Salt Lake City's Third District Court.
Utah prosecutors filed 14 criminal counts each against Kalshi, chief executive Tarek Mansour and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara, according to the report. The charges include a second-degree felony allegation of a pattern of unlawful activity; Kalshi argues its CFTC-regulated products fall under federal jurisdiction, while Utah says federal registration does not exempt the company from state gambling restrictions.
Utah has filed 14 criminal counts each against Kalshi, chief executive Tarek Mansour and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara. The charges include a second-degree felony count of pattern of unlawful activity.
The Gambling Commission said it removed 3,038,969 URLs in the first six months of the 2026/27 financial year, after reporting 266,667 removals in the previous full year. Interim chief executive Sarah Gardner said the authority had also sent 1,005 cease-and-desist notices between April and September 2026 and presented survey results showing 4% of online gamblers, excluding National Lottery players, had used unauthorised sites in the 12 months before April 2026.
The UKGC had 3,038,969 URLs removed in the first six months of the 2026/27 financial year, according to interim chief executive Sarah Gardner. Gardner presented the results at the CEO Briefing on 5 November 2026. In the same period 7,824,932 URLs were reported to search engines. In the previous financial year 397,527 URLs were reported and 266,667 were removed.