Lotto has not been won in months and now stands at more than 95m euro ($125m, £74m). With no winner since April, Italy's SuperEnalotto has rolled over to create the massive jackpot.

Italy's main consumer rights organization has launched a legal battle to have the prize money in the country's national lotto seized. The group Codacons says the jackpot is creating a dangerous gambling fever in the country.

Now Codacons, the Italian consumer right's group, has filed a lawsuit demanding that lotto prize should be seized because, it says, it is too high. The organization says the record jackpot has created a very dangerous betting fever with many recorded cases of people spending their life savings.

The odds on winning the jackpot have been calculated at 600m to one and it is thought seizing the money and splitting it among other lotto-style games would, says Codacons, protect the collective interest.

The Italian government earns an estimated $1bn annually from lotto proceeds.