Italian Carabinieri carried out 14 pre-trial detention orders in the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Chieti, in a case involving alleged money laundering through an illegal online gambling and betting network. A judge at the Lecce court issued the orders; the source does not provide further case details.
The arrests concern an alleged illegal online gambling network operating across three Italian provinces.
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Italy’s parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission approved a report on its 26 and 27 March 2026 mission to Puglia, describing organised-crime groups’ interests in gambling and money laundering. The report says the Strisciuglio clan controls the distribution of gaming machines and that criminal groups in the BAT province target gaming halls in robberies.
Italy's parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission has approved a report on its mission to Puglia on 26 and 27 March 2026. The report describes organised-crime groups' interests in gambling and money laundering.
Stella Liberato of Italy's ADM told Agimeg that the EU anti-money-laundering reform will apply the same obligations to gambling operators as to banks and financial intermediaries. She said the new AMLA authority will set a single rulebook across member states, with greater transparency on licensees' governance. The implementing decree for the sixth directive is still being drafted.
The EU anti-money-laundering reform will for the first time put gambling operators under the same obligations as banks and financial intermediaries, Stella Liberato of Italy's ADM said. Speaking to Agimeg at an anti-money-laundering forum in Milan, Liberato said the new AMLA authority will establish a single rulebook common to all member states, while each country remains autonomous in managing its own market.
Reportedly, As.Tro will sponsor the 2026 Forum Nazionale Antiriciclaggio, held at the Fondazione Cariplo congress centre in Milan on 21 and 22 October. Giuseppe Simone, president and founder of Betpoint and head of As.Tro's GADS section, will speak in a session on applying the EU AML Package in practice. The event, organised by the European School of Banking Management and the Scuola Italiana Antiriciclaggio & Compliance, is themed around the AML Package ahead of July 2027.
As.Tro is to sponsor the 2026 Forum Nazionale Antiriciclaggio, which is scheduled to take place on 21 and 22 October 2026 at the Fondazione Cariplo congress centre in Milan. The event is organised by the European School of Banking Management and the Scuola Italiana Antiriciclaggio & Compliance.
Italy’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) published a volume in July 2026 collecting proceedings from its seminar on gambling-service providers’ contribution to anti-money laundering efforts. The publication covers operator obligations, inspections, suspicious transaction reporting and the European Union’s AML package; Lottomatica and Sisal contributed accounts of their work with authorities.
Italy’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) published proceedings from a seminar on gambling-service providers’ role in preventing money laundering and terrorist financing. The 17 December 2025 seminar addressed the European framework, operator controls and the quality of suspicious transaction reports; the UIF said reports rose 37% in the first half of 2025 from a year earlier.