The attention of the police is maximum Melito Porto Salvo Company in the prevention and combating of violations relating to online sports betting and video lottery unauthorized. In fact, there have been numerous municipalities that have recently been combed through by the soldiers of the Carabinieri and the officials of the CarabinieriCustoms and Monopolies Agency ADM of Reggio Calabria in order to guarantee compliance with the rules protecting lawful and responsible gaming.
The task force put in place, operating within the scope of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2020 between the Carabinieri and the ADM, carried out, in addition to customer control activities, targeted technical checks on slot machines and owned VLT terminals, whose equipment must necessarily respond to a central server that manages the entire national network.
At the end of the same, the soldiers of the Carabinieri reported the owners of a tobacconist and a recreational club to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Reggio Calabria for failure to display the table of prohibited games. Furthermore, the second will also have to answer for the crime of computer fraud since the presence of 5 slot machines without authorizations and guarantee seals with gaming cards accessible and not connected to the state network managed by theCustoms and Monopolies Agency.
There are also high administrative sanctions that range between 5.000 and 50.000 euro for each device. Through the alteration of some IT components, in particular, the investigators believe that the agency's control was circumvented in order to evade the taxes due on betting. The gaming equipment, together with the related proceeds, were seized. The proceedings are currently pending investigation and the actual responsibility of the suspects will be examined during the subsequent trial. Further investigative and evidentiary developments cannot be ruled out, including in favor of the people under investigation.
