Brazilian football is going through a troubled period due to the investigations of Operation Maximum Penalty, carried out by the Public Ministry of Goiás, on a match-fixing scheme in Series A and B of the 2022 Brasileirão and state championships this year. ESPN detailed how three countries...
This Tuesday (6), the Economic Affairs Commission (CAE) gave its approval to the bill (PL) 2.796/2021, which establishes the legal framework for the electronic and fantasy games industry. The original text was proposed by the Chamber of Deputies and had a positive opinion from Senator Irajá (PSD-TO)....
House Bill 347, filed by Rep. Jason Saine and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, exited the North Carolina Senate after a 37-11 vote. It will now head back to the House aimed at legalizing sports betting. Governor Roy Cooper has already said he will sign it into...
The sports betting CPI began on May 24 and investigates the results manipulation in Brazilian football games. The priority is to listen to all the people who are involved in the Maximum Penalty Operation, carried out by the Public Ministry of Goiás (MPGO).
Because...
Federal deputy Ricardo Ayres (Republicanos-TO) presented bill 2842/2023, which aims to prohibit sports betting on individual actions during sporting events and establish specific regulations for bets related to the number of goals and results of matches.
The main objective of the proposal is to...
Deputy Luciano Vieira, member of the Sports Betting CPI, proposed a request to summon representatives of seven companies in the sector to give testimony. The aim is to hear representatives from Pixbet, SportingBet, Bet 365, Betfair, Betano, Parimach and Betsson in order to obtain relevant information for...
The Ministry of Finance is articulating a change in approach to the sports betting regulation in Brazil. The intention is to put the provisional measure aside and create a Bill to debate the matter in Congress, a posture that has generated apprehension in the sector.
The match-fixing scheme in Brazil shows the need to complete the sports betting regulation. The betting CPI in Congress must present projects related to this. The objective of the Federal Government is to create a secretariat in the Ministry of Finance to supervise and ensure compliance in...
The sports betting CPI may further delay the approval of the law that provides for the regulation of the activity in the Chamber of Deputies. The Federal Government chose not to make changes via a provisional measure, as previously indicated, but through a project sent to the...
The long-awaited Provisional Measure proposal for the regulation of fixed-quota sports betting in Brazil has just been released by the Federal Government.
The text also provides for taxation of revenue from companies and prizes awarded to gamblers.
The rules must be...
