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12 with links to Maltese betting sites arrested in Sicily for online betting

cde.news desk 19 November 2021, 09:45 · 1 min read

epa06925107 Italian police officers carry out checks in the Vasto district on the day after the wounding of a Senegalese street vendor, in Naples, southern Italy, 03 August 2018. A 22 year-old Senegalese street vendor by the name of Cisse' Elhadji Diebel, who lives in Italy with a residence permit, was wounded in the leg by two strangers with a gunshot. The young man was in the company of two friends in the street when two people on a scooter fired some gunshots. EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATE

Italian police on Thursday arrested 12 people in connection to a probe into allegedly illegal online betting in Sicily, judicial sources said.

The allegedly illegal operation involved Maltese betting sites which did not have a license to operate in Italy, the sources said.
The arrests were made in the provinces of Palermo, Ragusa, Messina, Agrigento and Trapani.

For five of those arrested, police added the additional charges of committing the alleged crime with the intimidatory force of Cosa Nostra behind them.

Photo – EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATE

12 with links to Maltese betting sites arrested in Sicily for online betting

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