Italy Issues New Guidelines to Streamline Match-Fixing Information Exchange
2026-07-30
Source: Global Gaming Insider
Italy's ADM and CONI's General Prosecutor's Office for Sport have published joint guidelines to standardize information exchange on suspicious betting, implementing a 2025 law. ADM is also developing AI tools to enhance monitoring, as the country steps up its fight against match-fixing amid broader regulatory moves such as the blocking of Polymarket.
Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) and the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport at CONI have jointly released a set of guidelines designed to standardise how the two bodies share intelligence on suspicious betting activity. The move represents a further strengthening of the country’s anti-match-fixing framework.
The new protocol operationalises Article 6 of Legislative Decree No. 96 of 30 June 2025, later enacted as Law No. 119 of 8 August 2025. Under the guidelines, ADM is required to notify the General Prosecutor’s Office for Sport whenever it detects irregular betting patterns. In response, the Prosecutor’s Office may request supplementary data, including details of betting accounts linked—directly or indirectly—to registered athletes or affiliated individuals, as well as the rationale for any suspected connection.
Once the Prosecutor’s Office has reviewed the information, it can be passed on to the relevant Federal Prosecutor’s Office for a formal investigation. The framework also empowers Federal Prosecutors to open case files if the suspicious betting activity indicates possible breaches of sporting regulations, including sport-specific betting bans.
The process is reciprocal. If a Federal Prosecutor has already initiated an investigation based on intelligence from another source, ADM can supply corroborative betting data when it identifies corresponding anomalous wagering activity.
According to ADM and the General Prosecutor’s Office, the guidelines are intended to deepen cooperation between regulatory and sporting bodies, thereby bolstering Italy’s capacity to detect and probe potential manipulation of sporting events.
AI-Powered Monitoring
ADM has confirmed that it is developing new artificial intelligence-based tools to augment its surveillance and analysis of sports betting data. The technology aims to improve the detection of unusual betting patterns and support enforcement actions against match-fixing.
Broader Regulatory Context
The guidelines emerge during a period of heightened regulatory activity in Italy’s gambling sector. Notably, ADM recently blocked Polymarket, prompting Lazio to remove the platform’s branding from its official channels.