Illegal gaming rises to 18 billion in 2020 (+ 50%), to 20 billion in 2021

The pandemic experience confirms the link between the fall of the legal game and the take-off of the illegal one controlled by crime, which uses technological and fraud tools. If in 2019 the value of illegal gaming was estimated at around 12 billion euros, in 2020 it rose to 18 billion (+ 50%) and in 2021 it risks going beyond 20 billion euros. This is what emerges from the ‘Lottomatica-Censis Report on Legal Gaming’ in Italy. Further signs of the growth of illegal gambling, the report noted, “come from law enforcement operations: between the beginning of 2020 and April 2021, a clandestine room was discovered every 3 days, 145 investigations were conducted by the police forces. order, 1000 people reported (493 in 2019) “.