Calatabiano orders betting shop to close over missing start-of-activity filing
Calatabiano municipality ordered a betting shop to stop operating immediately after a local police inspection, supported by Customs and Monopolies Agency officials, found it had opened without the required SCIA filing. The action followed the police headquarters’ earlier rejection of the company representative’s licence application.
The closure shows that operating without the required filing can prompt immediate municipal action, even after a licence application has been rejected.