The Brazilian Bar Association – Mato Grosso Section (OAB-MT), through its Sports Law Commission (CDD), is offering a free virtual lecture that will discuss the topic: “Sports Betting and Results Manipulation”. The current scenario requires many actions to avoid this type of problem in Brazil and around the world.
The lecture will be held this Tuesday, 16, with free registration. To participate, just access the ESA MT channel on Youtube and wait for the event to start.
The speaker is the lawyer Udo Seckelmann, a member of the Special Committee on Sports, Lottery and Entertainment Games at the OAB-RJ. Seckelmann holds a master’s degree in International Sports Law from ISDE-Madrid and a member of the National Academy of Sports Law (ANDD).
Geandre Bucair, president of the Sports Law Commission of the OAB-MT, points out that the scare is on the rise and is extremely important for the integrity of the sports and betting sector. “Our legislation is very limited and every day these practices become more common. So this is a matter of extreme importance.”
Check out the full sports betting lecture below.
Year 2022 should break a record in the number of manipulation of results
Sportradar, a company specializing in competitive integrity and betting monitoring, has already identified – as of April 1st – over 670 matches with suspected match-fixing, 400 of which in football alone.
In addition, everything indicates that this number should exceed 1,000 cases for the first time in history, as the World Cup is approaching in the coming months.
In the year 2021, Sportradar recorded 903 games with suspected manipulation in 10 different sports and in 76 countries. The number broke a record in 17 years of follow-up, and could be surpassed in 2022.
