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Luiz Fux adds six participants to Brazil betting-ban hearing

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Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux partially granted the Attorney General’s Office request to add participants to a public hearing on Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which seeks to ban fixed-odds betting. The expanded list has 34 participants, up from 28; Fux declined to reopen discussion of betting’s social harms.

The hearing will include additional government, sports and civil-society participants in a case concerning a proposed national betting ban.

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IBJR president warns Brazil betting market may not recover after licence revocations

IBJR president Carlos Lima said Brazil’s betting market could change permanently after a provisional measure revoked licences held by legal operators. He said delays in a Supreme Federal Court ruling on the measure could increase economic harm, including layoffs; some companies have already reduced their Brazilian teams, he added.

Brazil's regulated betting market may not return to its previous state after Provisional Measure No. 1,394/2026 revoked the licences of licensed operators, according to Carlos Lima, president of the Brazilian Institute for Responsible Gaming (IBJR). Lima, speaking in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, said the sector is still hoping that Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Luiz Fux will suspend the measure in the coming days.

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