Brazil report records 35 trafficking victims linked to foreign betting firms in 2024
Brazil’s National Report on Human Trafficking recorded 35 Brazilians rescued from conditions analogous to slavery in 2024 in cases involving foreign online betting companies. It identified locations including the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Nigeria, but did not name the companies involved; the source says more than half of international trafficking cases involving Brazilian workers that year concerned services on international digital betting platforms.
The reported cases raise labour-risk concerns for betting operators with links to the countries identified.