Federal deputy Yuri Paredão (PL-CE) asked the CPI of sports betting, of the Chamber of Deputies, to summon, as investigated, the former employee of the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), José Ribamar Sodré Veloso.
In a request, the deputy says that there is a need to clarify issues related to betting. José Ribamar, known as Bacará, is a defendant in a murder investigation involving the betting market and jogo do bicho. The CBF declined to comment on the matter.
Known as Bacará, José Ribamar is a defendant in a process that is investigating the murder, in 2021, of a businessman from Goiás who went to Maranhão to install two betting sites in the northeastern state.
Since the 1970s, Baccarat attended the CBF headquarters in Rio. According to the entity, he is no longer an employee. He could not be reached for comment.
According to the Civil Police and the Public Ministry of Maranhão, Bacará is responsible for hiding in the garage of his house, in São Luís, the white Gol driven by a military policeman from Maranhão and which was used in the crime by killers in Rio de Janeiro .
According to deputy Yuri Paredão, the justification is that the CPI on sports betting “aims to investigate the sports betting market in Brazil, which moves billions of reais per year and is a sector vulnerable to corruption and manipulation of results”.
The parliamentarian pointed out that the summons is an “important action for the verification of the facts and for the elaboration of measures to combat these illegal practices in the country”.
