Brazil’s finance minister Dario Durigan and justice and public security minister Wellington César Lima e Silva are due to announce measures against the illegal fixed-odds betting market on 19 June. The announcement is scheduled for 10:00 at the Ministry of Finance auditorium.
The measures could affect operators active in Brazil’s fixed-odds betting market.
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Bahia’s public prosecutor’s office, MP-BA, filed a public civil lawsuit against three companies in Brazil. The authority alleged that the companies intermediated payments for illegal betting platforms.
It was reported that Brazil’s Ministry of Finance plans to continue enforcement against illegal betting operators. SPA outlined measures already taken during a Chamber of Deputies committee hearing on 11 August.
Reportedly, ANJL has backed Brazil’s Todos Contra o Ilegal campaign. The initiative helps consumers identify unauthorised betting operators and provides information about responsible gambling and self-exclusion.
Brazil’s National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) said it supports advertising rules announced by the Ministry of Finance. The association called for stronger enforcement against unauthorised platforms, which it says evade taxes and breach advertising and consumer-protection requirements.
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.