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IBJR backs blocking social-benefit recipients from Brazil betting platforms

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Brazil’s IBJR supported blocking Bolsa Família and BPC beneficiaries from online betting platforms, following new rules issued by the Finance Ministry’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA). Operators must check users against the benefits database at registration and on their first daily login, and close identified existing accounts within three days.

Operators must screen users and close accounts identified as belonging to beneficiaries of the named social programmes.

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Brazil Supreme Court cancels conciliation hearing on social-benefit recipients’ betting accounts

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court minister Luiz Fux cancelled a conciliation hearing scheduled for 10 February on whether betting platforms should temporarily stop blocking or closing accounts held by social-benefit recipients. Fux said the session conflicted with another court sitting; no replacement date has been set. The hearing forms part of a case challenging the constitutionality of Brazil’s betting law.

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