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Esportes Gaming Brasil director urges regulatory predictability for Brazil betting sector

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Esportes Gaming Brasil institutional relations and products director Hugo Baungartner called for clearer rules and greater public understanding to support Brazil’s regulated betting market during a panel at SBC Summit Rio. He said uncertainty over regulatory changes and taxes affects investment decisions, including those of suppliers; ANJL president Plinio Lemos also cited legal uncertainty as a concern for operators.

Regulatory uncertainty may affect investment decisions by betting operators and suppliers in Brazil.

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Brazil’s PGR asks Supreme Court to pause challenges to betting ban

Brazil’s prosecutor-general, Paulo Gonet, asked the Supreme Federal Court on 6 November to suspend nationwide legal cases challenging Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux had not ruled on the request by the report’s publication; Gonet said parallel cases risk inconsistent application of the measure.

Paulo Gonet, the prosecutor-general of Brazil, went to the Supreme Federal Court with a request to halt, across the whole country, the lawsuits contesting the constitutionality of Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, the text that banned fixed-odds betting. The filing reached the court on the night of Friday 6 November and was directed to Justice Luiz Fux, who is the rapporteur of the betting cases there. As of the closing of the report, no decision from Fux had been issued.

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