The Enna court overturned a €33,000 penalty imposed on a business operator over customers using publicly accessible computers for gambling, including on illegal sites. The defence argued that rules for amusement machines did not apply to computers; the court accepted the appeal.
The ruling challenges the application of amusement-machine rules to computers used by customers for gambling.
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Italy’s Supreme Court rejected a bar owner’s appeal and upheld the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) assessment for unpaid betting tax relating to 2017, according to the report. The court found that a technical report supported the original assessment, and it also rejected challenges to the penalties.
The Palermo Court of Appeal ruled that TULPS Article 110(9)(f-quater) does not apply to computers that allow online gaming through an internet connection but lack gaming peripherals. The article provides for penalties of €5,000 to €50,000 per device and closure of the premises.
Italy’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against a conviction for illegal betting collection, confirming that a centre operator commits an offence by letting customers bet through the operator’s account or nominal accounts. The court said the conduct included access by minors and false online identities, and that a foreign bookmaker’s authorisation does not make the intermediary activity lawful.
Tuscany’s Regional Administrative Court overturned the Florence police chief’s 10-day suspension of a gaming hall’s public security licences, according to a report on the ruling. The court agreed that the ADM had already sanctioned the underage-entry incident and that the presence of a company partner did not establish unauthorised representation.
A company running a gaming hall in Florence won its appeal before the Tuscany regional administrative court, whose Second Section annulled the police chief's order suspending its public security licences for ten days. The judges reached the decision in their chambers session of 29 September 2026.
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.