Italy has taken another step in its efforts to combat match-fixing, with the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) and the General Prosecutor's Office for Sport at CONI publishing joint guidelines to standardise the exchange of information relating to suspicious betting activity.
The new framework implements Article 6 of Legislative Decree No. 96 of 30 June 2025, later converted into Law No. 119 of 8 August 2025. It establishes a formal process for sharing information between the two bodies when irregular betting patterns are identified.
Under the guidelines, ADM must notify the General Prosecutor's Office for Sport whenever it detects anomalous betting flows. The Prosecutor's Office can then request additional information, including details of betting accounts linked directly or indirectly to registered athletes or affiliated individuals, along with the reasons for any suspected connection.
Once this information has been reviewed, it may be forwarded to the relevant Federal Prosecutor's Office for further investigation. The framework also allows Federal Prosecutors to open case files where suspicious betting activity suggests potential breaches of sporting regulations, including discipline-specific betting prohibitions.
The process also works in reverse. Where a Federal Prosecutor has already opened an investigation following information from another qualified source, ADM can provide supporting betting data if it identifies corresponding anomalous betting activity.
According to the two organisations, the guidelines are intended to improve cooperation between regulatory and sporting authorities, strengthening Italy's ability to detect and investigate potential manipulation of sporting events.
ADM also confirmed it is developing new artificial intelligence-based tools to enhance its monitoring and analysis of sports betting data. The technology is intended to improve the detection of unusual betting patterns and support enforcement efforts against match-fixing.
The guidelines arrive amid a broader period of regulatory activity for Italy's gambling sector, which has recently seen the ADM block Polymarket, which led to Lazio removing the platform's branding from its official channels.
Italy's gambling market reached a record €165.34bn ($189bn) in total volume in 2025, according to the Black Book on Gambling produced by CGIL, Federconsumatori and the ISSCON Foundation
