One of the most searched questions online is whether foreign bookmakers accept Italian players and whether, vice versa, it is possible to bet on a foreign bookmaker that is not resident in Italy. Questions that may seem trivial but that hide issues related to the question of legality and, above all, security.
In our country, there is a body responsible for overseeing the sector: the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM), which is tasked with "contributing to internal taxation and protecting the financial interests of the country and the European Union, ensuring the collection of specific taxes and combating tax evasion and fraud, including through tax and judicial police powers."
The ADM also monitors the (vast) world of betting bookmakers, within which there is a bit of everything, regulated entities and others that are not at all. The latter are often resident abroad, most of the time in unlikely countries.
Relying on bookmakers regulated in Italy does not mean, obviously, having greater chances of winning (the game still remains at high risk of loss): but dealing at least with an operator regulated at the level of the Italian State. Such as for example Snai bets, present on the Italian market since the dawn of bookmaking, given that bets with this operator date back to 1990.
Can you bet on foreign bookmakers?
The main question is exactly this: is it possible to bet on foreign bookmakers? The answer is a bit ambivalent and not entirely clear: because in Italy the law travels a bit on a thin border line, straddling different settings.
In theory there is no law that prohibits the betting user from connecting to a site that is located in some part of the world; and indeed many do so precisely because of the simplicity guaranteed today by the means of the Internet. Just type the name of the site of a bookmaker that is also on the other side of the world and that's it.
Whether this is legal or not is something that has been debated for years (for more information, you can read this interesting article: https://giocopulito.it/bookmakers-italiani-stranieri-limportanza-della-regolamentazione/). The knot to be untied lies in the fact that most foreign operators have a foreign license, therefore not issued by the ADM mentioned above.
As you can see, this creates a conflict between what is the Italian law (overseen by the ADM) and what, in practice, can be done: because prohibiting a betting user from turning on his PC and connecting to a foreign site is not something that can be done. At least it is not in our country, given that in other places, even in Europe, it is prohibited to bet through sites of operators outside their borders.
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