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Brazilian government sends 10,435 illegal betting sites for blocking

Enforcement & compliance

Brazil’s government said it referred 10,435 illegal betting sites for blocking between 25 September and 1 October, through the Justice Ministry’s Ciberlab/Senasp and the Finance Ministry’s SPA. The government said Anatel received the blocking requests and that the count had more than doubled from 5,209 reported on 29 September. Separately, Finance Minister Dario Durigan said daily betting transactions of about R$600 million stopped after the measure prohibiting fixed-odds betting took effect.

Operators and financial institutions face blocking action and the end of betting transactions under the prohibition.

Earlier fines and penalties by these regulators

DateCompanyAmountStoryAppeal status
Not named10,000Brazil requests suspension of more than 10,000 betting websitesNot stated
Not namedNot statedBrazil’s Justice Ministry orders betting sites to redirect traffic from 6 OctoberNot stated
Google, MetaNot statedBrazil orders blocks on 5,209 betting domains under national banNot stated
Not namedBRL 1,000,000,000Brazilian police freeze nearly BRL1bn in illegal betting operationNot stated
Not namedBRL 951,140,294Brazilian Federal Police block up to R$951m in illegal betting investigationNot stated

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