Taranto, clandestine gambling den discovered: one person reported

(LaPresse) 20 electronic gaming machines have been seized, with a person responsible having been reported to the competent authorities. This is the outcome of an intervention by the Fiamme Gialle of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Taranto to combat gambling. The operation is the result of the constant economic control of the territory implemented by the Taranto financiers in the provincial capital; In fact, at night, the unjustified influx of customers into an anonymous building in a city neighborhood, with barred windows, protected by metal gates, video cameras and surveillance personnel, did not go unnoticed. After carrying out some confidential inspections and stakeouts in the vicinity of the building, the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Taranto gained access, ascertaining that as many as 20 gaming machines were present and functioning in the room on the first floor, including video poker machines. , prohibited by law, and slot machines not connected to the IT network of the Customs and Monopolies Agency. A real “clandestine gambling den” equipped with equipped gaming stations, coin machines and a “refreshment point” available to players. Having ascertained that access to the gaming room was permitted only to a selected clientele upon recognition through the video surveillance system, the Guardia di Finanza proceeded to seize the gaming machines as well as a substantial sum of money, proceeds of gambling, and to report a person responsible to the competent authorities.