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Rio de Janeiro sports tribunal suspends Barra Mansa president for one month

Enforcement & compliance

The Rio de Janeiro Sports Justice Tribunal imposed a preventive one-month suspension on Barra Mansa president Genivaldo da Silva over suspected match manipulation linked to a 2025 Série B2 game. The club lost 2-1 to Paraty; a separate disciplinary hearing involving the club, Silva and manager Thiago Carvalho da Costa is scheduled for 11 May over another 2025 match.

The preventive suspension and further hearing concern sports-betting integrity allegations involving a football club.

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Rio de Janeiro city council advances online betting harm-prevention programme

Rio de Janeiro’s city council approved the first reading of bill PL 3667/2024 on 4 November, proposing a programme to prevent harm from online betting and gambling disorder. The proposal includes a permanent awareness campaign, bars sports-betting advertising aimed at children and adolescents, and is due to return for a second vote.

In a first discussion held on Wednesday (04/11), Rio's city chamber passed PL 3667/2024. Its purpose is to establish a programme for preventing the effects of online betting and for fighting ludopathy. The project will go back on the agenda for a second vote.

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