The Court of Appeal of Catania accepted the operator’s arguments in two cross-appeals and ordered the release of terminals linked to Lireservice. The operator had also had gaming machines seized; the available text does not state the court’s decision on those machines.
The ruling affects the operator’s ability to use seized terminals and gaming machines.
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Catania’s police chief ordered a betting shop in the Librino district to close for seven days, the report said. Police said inspections found people with criminal records who were considered responsible for serious offences regularly gathering at the premises.
Catania police issued 15 orders barring people from Camporotondo Etneo for three years after they took part in an illegal horse race on 4 January. Police said the investigation documented the race and identified people involved in organising it; some were reported to judicial authorities over the event and suspected illegal betting.
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.
Sicily’s regional administrative court has set a 19 November 2026 hearing on a challenge to the Questura of Catania’s order closing a sports betting collection business. The court did not rule on the request to suspend the order, saying the parties’ interests could be addressed through a prompt hearing on the merits.
A first-instance tax court annulled two assessments linked to seven seized gaming terminals, according to the report. It held that an irrevocable criminal acquittal on the same facts had binding effect in the tax case under the new rules. The court noted that the issue remains contested in higher courts.