Brazil issues national policy to combat sports match-fixing
Brazil’s sports, finance, justice and public security ministries established a national policy to prevent and combat sports results manipulation through Interministerial Ordinance No. 1, issued on 25 March 2026. The framework calls for suspicious betting activity to be detected and reported to authorities, gives the Federal Police an investigative role and assigns the Ministry of Sports responsibility for a steering committee and action plan.
Operators in Brazil’s regulated fixed-odds market are expected to detect and report suspicious betting patterns to authorities in real time.