Brazilian government challenges Supreme Court order on tracing benefit funds used for betting
Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office appealed Justice Luiz Fux’s decision on restricting online betting with social-benefit funds, arguing that the government lacks a technical method to distinguish those funds from other income. Fux had ruled that restrictions should apply only to money originating from benefits, rather than blocking beneficiaries from betting altogether; he also cancelled a planned conciliation hearing with betting companies.
The dispute concerns how betting restrictions for social-benefit recipients can be applied without blocking other funds.