During the investigations conducted by the Guardia di Finanza of Ancona, against the phenomenon of illegal gaming and clandestine betting, a person was reported for illegal online gaming and tax evasion.
The Finance Police of Senigallia, through the analysis of banking movements and the control of compliance with anti-money laundering regulations, identified a person who used to bet on illegal sites, as well as using online gaming platforms authorized by the Administration of State Monopolies. The anti-money laundering control concerns financial flows and aims to counter criminal infiltration attempts in the gaming and betting sector, as well as ascertaining the origin of the money, if subtracted from taxation, or identifying subjects who, despite having large sums of money at their disposal, unduly benefit from the social protection system such as citizenship income.
Those who participate in competitions, games, bets, managed outside of legal channels, in addition to being sanctioned for not having declared their winnings to the tax authorities, commit a crime punishable by arrest or fine. For this reason, the citizen of Senigallia who had gambled sums of around 150.000 euros on illegal foreign sites was reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Ancona for "illegal gambling" and recorded for not having declared the winnings of around 50.000 euros to the tax authorities.
In particular, these forms of illegal gaming are managed on web platforms located in foreign countries which advertise guarantees of anonymity in the management of money flows, also fueling forms of money laundering and making gaming methods easier as a form of incentive for their use by of the player. The action of the Guardia di Finanza also tends to protect players, trying to protect them from illegal, unsafe and without any guarantee gambling offers, safeguarding the weakest groups, first and foremost minors.
The activity carried out by the Guardia di Finanza in the specific sector takes the form, first of all, of inspections of the subjects authorized to collect bets, to ascertain the exact payment of the single tax on prediction/betting competitions and of the other forms of tax levy in force, as well as compliance with administrative and sector regulations.
Similar attention is then paid to the illicit collection of bets and the abusive organization of competitions and games by unauthorized operators, which, in addition to unfair competition with respect to regularly administered activities, determine a contraction of the tax revenue deriving from the tax monopoly on gaming and betting.
