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Italy’s Supreme Court orders appeal rehearing in unlicensed betting case

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Italy’s Court of Cassation overturned and remanded an appeal ruling against a man convicted of operating a betting shop without a concession. It upheld the finding that the venue lacked authorisation but said the appeal court had not explained whether he knew the activity was unlawful; a different section must reconsider that issue.

The remand makes the operator’s knowledge of the missing authorisation central to the renewed case.

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Italy’s Supreme Court upholds asset confiscation in case citing illegal gambling

Italy’s Supreme Court rejected appeals by three third parties and upheld the confiscation of assets linked by lower courts to a person associated with a local mafia group. The court accepted the lower court’s reasoning, which cited alleged illegal gambling and online betting activity among its assessment of social dangerousness and the disparity between declared income and assets.

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