The Cagliari court acquitted all 27 defendants in a case concerning alleged unauthorised betting collection for unlicensed foreign bookmakers, according to the report. The court found that the alleged offence did not exist; the acquittals were also consistent with the prosecutor’s final request.
The ruling resolves allegations of unauthorised betting activity and related tax and money-laundering offences against 27 defendants.
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The Catania review court overturned the order validating the seizure of goods from a shop in Acireale investigated over alleged illegal betting collection. It sent the records to prosecutors for the immediate return of the seized property. The ruling concerned the seizure and was not a final decision on the allegations.
The Catania review court has annulled the decree validating an evidential seizure issued in an investigation into an alleged illegal betting collection point in Acireale. The judge ordered the case records to be sent to prosecutors so that the goods seized from the business, a stationery shop in the town, could be returned immediately.
The Viterbo Review Court overturned the evidentiary seizure of materials from a betting shop in Blera under investigation for alleged unauthorised betting collection. The court’s 17 July 2025 order directed the return of the seized items; the defence said the shop was authorised under contracts with two online gambling concessionaires.
Italy’s Supreme Court rejected appeals by three third parties and upheld the confiscation of assets linked by lower courts to a person associated with a local mafia group. The court accepted the lower court’s reasoning, which cited alleged illegal gambling and online betting activity among its assessment of social dangerousness and the disparity between declared income and assets.
Italy’s Court of Cassation annulled without remand a conviction concerning illegal betting collection after the offence became time-barred. The case involved betting activity at a gaming venue; the court had upheld the lower courts’ assessment of responsibility but found the appeal’s challenge to the refusal of a substitute sentence justified.
A court in Lecce ordered the seizure of at least €600,000 in assets linked to Tobia Parisi and his family, following a request from anti-mafia prosecutors. Investigators allege that a bar in Mesagne served as a base for clandestine sports betting; the order is aimed at eventual confiscation.
A court in Lecce ordered the seizure of at least €600,000 in assets linked to Tobia Parisi and his family on Wednesday, at the request of anti-mafia prosecutors, according to the Carabinieri. The order is aimed at eventual confiscation. Parisi, 45, is accused of being a senior figure in the Mesagne faction of the Sacra Corona Unita, the Puglia-based organised crime group, and a lieutenant to mafia boss Daniele Vicientino.