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Brazilian government challenges Supreme Court order on tracing benefit funds used for betting

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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.

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