Which will start on thursday and is scheduled to end on december the 2nd could be extended. The cabinet minister michael gove said ministers will be guided by the facts. He said the government wanted to get the coronavirus reproduction rate below the critical level of one. Borisjohnson announced the latest round of restrictions at a News Conference last night. The strict measures are set to come into effect on thursday. They will see pubs, restaurants, gyms and non essential shops and places of worship close. However, schools, colleges and universities can stay open. Travel and overnight stays in the uk and abroad will be restricted and meeting others indoors or in private gardens is banned. Today, labour criticised the government for rejecting its call last month for a so called circuit brea ker thats a tight set of restrictions for a fixed period of time. For the latest, heres our Political Correspondent helen catt. They are the headlines the Prime Minister never wanted to see, arriv
Italian Mafia bust implicates Malta in illegal gambling scandal… again
1 month ago
Malta has made headlines for all the wrong reasons once again due to its online gambling sector as a new investigation revealed a mafia group, the Santapaola-Ercolano clan, had run an illegal betting empire while basing their servers in Malta.
‘Operation Double Game‘ by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) investigated some 336 individuals involved in the online gambling scheme in Sicily, Puglia, Emiliana Romagna, Germany, Poland and Malta.
The criminals set up a sports betting site called RaiseBet24.com which, despite being unauthorised to operate in Italy, based its servers in Malta to bypass the rules.