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Brazil’s Senacon plans lab to identify illegal betting platforms

Enforcement & compliance

Brazil’s National Consumer Secretariat (Senacon) plans to launch a laboratory to help state and municipal consumer agencies identify illegal betting platforms and refer cases to the Ministry of Finance’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting. Secretary Ricardo Morishita Wada said the lab was in its final adjustments and that Senacon planned to issue a technical note in the coming days.

The planned process would help consumer agencies identify illegal platforms and direct cases to the authorities responsible for blocking them.

Earlier fines and penalties by Ministry of Finance and Anatel

DateCompanyAmountStoryAppeal status
Not namedNot statedAnatel blocks about 39,000 sites in Brazil illegal betting actionNot stated
Kalshi, PolymarketNot statedBrazil says Anatel is blocking 27 prediction platform websitesNot stated
Not namedNot statedAnatel blocks 28 prediction market platforms in BrazilNot stated
Kalshi, PolymarketNot statedBrazil finance ministry bars 27 prediction-market platformsNot stated
Not namedNot statedBrazilian authorities bar prediction markets and block 28 platformsNot stated

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