Navarra's Foral Police carried out more than 1,500 inspections of amusement machines and 220 checks on minors' access to gambling, tobacco and alcohol in 2025, the regional government said. The figures were given at an event marking 40 years of the police's Gaming and Entertainment Brigade.
The figures show the scale of enforcement activity affecting gambling venues in Navarra.
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Italian police inspected four betting shops in Florence during a city-wide operation on Friday. Officers reported that minors under 18 were present in areas dedicated to betting at one venue, in breach of the cited 2011 decree; the young people were handed back to their parents.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation and Ministry of Defence plan to block active military personnel from legal online gambling platforms during martial law. Platforms would check users against a state system covering the gambling exclusion register and a military database; PlayCity would oversee providers’ technical integration, with no implementation deadline stated.
The Kansspelautoriteit said it would take action against gaming venues and casinos named in a television investigation in the Netherlands. The investigation showed that people registered with Cruks had entered using another person’s identity document, and the KSA said venues must conduct the required checks accurately.
The ACT government introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly on 20 October proposing account-based access to poker machines in Canberra, reportedly. The proposal would require identity checks and player-set loss limits, prohibit ATMs at gaming machine venues and reduce the territory’s machine total to 1,000 by 2045.
Illinois has proposed identity checks for video gambling machine voucher purchases, according to the headline and feed snippet. The proposal would stop machines from accepting cash directly and require checks of purchasers’ age and self-exclusion status.