Plans for European Union regulated gambling markets to share online poker liquidity are under fire from a key Italian politician, potentially threatening to undo years of negotiations by regulators in their respective markets.

On July 6, gaming regulators in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain finally reached consensus on plans to allow the four countries’ licensed online poker operators to accept customers from each other’s markets. While the plan is a long way from becoming reality, some regulators have already begun accepting applicants from online poker sites who believe sharing is caring.

But these plans came under fire last week from Italian Democratic Party Senator Franco Mirabelli (pictured), who sits on the country’s influential anti-mafia commission. Gioco News quoted Mirabelli saying he planned to present a query seeking “an immediate intervention” by Minister of Economy and Finance Pier Carlo Padoan “to prevent the continuation of this project.”

Mirabelli is apparently convinced that allowing Italian-licensed online poker operators to share liquidity with their counterparts in three other EU markets could become “a tool for recycling,” which is apparently the way Italians refer to international money laundering.