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Brazil’s Sports Ministry and Federal Police sign five-year integrity pact

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Brazil’s Ministry of Sport and Federal Police signed a cooperation agreement on 9 November to strengthen sports integrity and address match-fixing. The agreement runs for 60 months and covers prevention, identification, reporting and responses to match-fixing and other threats to competition integrity. It was negotiated before provisional measure 1,394 prohibited fixed-odds sports betting, according to the source material.

The agreement establishes cooperation against match-fixing while the reported betting prohibition affects the licensed market’s monitoring arrangements.

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Brazil’s justice ministry classifies betting ban documents as secret for five years

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security classified documents underlying Provisional Measure 1,394/2026 as secret for five years. The measure prohibits online betting activity and advertising in Brazil; the ministry cited risks to public safety and financial stability, while the presidential chief of staff separately invoked lawyer-client confidentiality to deny access. Betting-industry executive Fellipe Fraga expressed concern about the secrecy.

Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security classified as secret for five years the documents underpinning Provisional Measure 1,394/2026, which prohibited the operation, offering, intermediation and advertising of online betting in Brazil. The classification term was signed on 24 September, a day before the measure was issued. A request for access to the material under the Access to Information Law was refused because of the secrecy, according to the report.

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