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Brazil suspends fixed-odds betting and digital casinos under provisional measure

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Brazil’s federal government ordered an immediate suspension of fixed-odds online betting and digital casinos through Provisional Measure 1,394/2026, according to the report. Industry experts said the move could drive bettors to the illegal market and undermine legal certainty; Letícia Ferraz said the measure could be challenged in court.

The suspension changes the operating status of Brazil’s regulated betting and digital casino market.

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Brazil’s PGR withholds position on fixed-odds betting measure before STF

Brazil’s deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said at an STF public hearing on 3 November that the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the provisional measure on fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux said the court could return the issue to the legislative and executive branches, and noted that the STF would need to consider eight constitutional actions if asked to rule.

Brazil's Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) did not state a position on the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting in the country. This came at the end of a public hearing convened by Justice Luiz Fux of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) on 3 November. Deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the measure.

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