Carabinieri in Naples Bagnoli temporarily closed a betting shop during checks in the city’s western outskirts. The operation also recorded 67 people identified, 48 vehicles checked and two people reported for legal violations; the source does not specify the grounds for the shop closure.
The temporary closure affects the venue’s ability to operate, although the reported grounds are unspecified.
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Carabinieri and the Catania Labour Inspectorate found workplace-safety violations at a betting shop in Aci Catena, Italy. The owner was reported over missing health surveillance, with a €1,423.84 fine, and received an administrative penalty of €3,132 for not keeping the risk assessment document on site.
Carabinieri inspections in Castellammare di Stabia resulted in administrative penalties of about €60,000 for a betting-shop administrator, according to the report. Officers cited three undeclared workers, unauthorised surveillance equipment and vending machines, and a tampered slot machine without ADM seals; the administrator was also reported to prosecutors.
Carabinieri referred a 38-year-old betting-shop owner from Mascalucia to judicial authorities after checks at a premises in Piano Tavola, Catania province. Investigators allege the shop collected bets without the licence required under Article 88; the evidence will be assessed by the competent courts.
Carabinieri and officials from Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency inspected a betting venue in Catania’s Ognina-Picanello district. They found gaming areas were not adequately separated from areas selling other goods and ordered the 63-year-old owner to make changes within a set deadline.
A media investigation found 87 domains offering betting and withdrawals across six Telegram channels, a month after Brazil’s provisional measure prohibited betting platforms. The channels had more than 43 mil subscriptions, and none of the domains ended in .bet.br; the Finance Ministry’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting said it had blocked more than 47 mil illegal sites since the measure was issued.
Betting channels on Telegram are still advertising games and referral bonuses in Brazil, a month after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a provisional measure banning betting platforms, Metrópoles reported. Its investigation found 87 distinct domains advertised in six channels with more than 43 mil subscriptions combined. None of the 87 domains had the ending that had identified federally authorised platforms before the ban.