Brazil’s government will launch a task force to review and publicly release thousands of documents tied to the authorisation of fixed-odds betting operators, in a bid to ease mounting scrutiny of the newly regulated gambling market.
According to Finance Minister Dario Durigan, the plan is to disclose all non-sensitive documents from concluded authorisation processes for sports betting operators. Personal and banking data will be redacted to comply with data-protection rules, but the substantive parts of the files will be opened to public inspection.
Durigan said previous access restrictions were justified by the volume of sensitive information in the case files, but stressed that the administration does not intend to run a “secretive” gambling regime. The government will now work with the federal audit authorities to filter roughly 25,000 documents and begin releasing them on a rolling basis as they are cleared.
“My commitment, like President Lula’s commitment, is to provide transparency. This government is not a government of secrecy, it is not a government that intends to hoard information and withhold information from people. Therefore, in the coming days, all proceedings concerning companies regulated by the SPA that have been concluded will be widely publicized,” Duigan said.
The Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) also reported that it is reinforcing its monitoring and oversight actions due to the holding of the Club World Cup. Among the measures already adopted are meetings with public prosecutors, consumer protection agencies, Procons (Brazilian consumer protection agencies), and other members of the National Consumer Protection System to reinforce compliance with advertising rules stipulated in Law No. 14.790/2023 and the sector’s regulatory standards, especially those related to commercial communication and marketing of betting platforms.
The move comes amid political and media pressure over how betting licences are being granted and how operators are supervised. Last week Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies took its most decisive step yet against the country’s vast unlicensed online betting market, when the Finance and Taxation Committee unanimously approved PL 4044/2025, the long-awaited legal framework for the suppression of clandestine betting.
The rapporteur was Laura Carneiro of the Social Democratic Party who framed the package as a tightening of rules and regulations put in place by the 2023 betting law.
The substance is the most aggressive criminal framework Brasília has produced for the sector to date. The bill creates four new offences: exploring or facilitating betting without authorisation, punishable by two to six years in prison; intermediating payments for unauthorised operators, two to six years, with the sentence increased where anonymisation tools or offshore transfers are used; the dissemination of irregular betting advertising, one to four years, with an aggravating factor where content is aimed at children or distributed by digital influencers; and obstructing site-blocking actions, two to five years.
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