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Brazil betting association disputes debt study ahead of STF hearing

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Brazil’s National Association of Games and Lotteries challenged a study that identified online betting as the main cause of debt among Brazilians, alleging methodological errors. The association said the findings did not match official credit and household-consumption statistics and is considering commissioning its own research. A conciliation hearing at the Supreme Federal Court over the use of social-benefit funds for betting has no scheduled date.

The dispute concerns evidence ahead of a court-mediated discussion of social-benefit funds used for online betting.

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Brazil’s PGR asks Supreme Court to pause challenges to betting ban

Brazil’s prosecutor-general, Paulo Gonet, asked the Supreme Federal Court on 6 November to suspend nationwide legal cases challenging Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux had not ruled on the request by the report’s publication; Gonet said parallel cases risk inconsistent application of the measure.

Paulo Gonet, the prosecutor-general of Brazil, went to the Supreme Federal Court with a request to halt, across the whole country, the lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, the text that banned fixed-odds betting. The filing reached the court on the night of Friday 6 November and was directed to Justice Luiz Fux, who is the rapporteur of the betting cases there. As of the closing of the report, no decision from Fux had been issued.

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