Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies took its most decisive step yet against the country’s vast unlicensed online betting market on 1 June, 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, and her text unifies the original PL 4044/2025 — drafted by Paulo Litro of União Brasil and Merlong Solano of the Workers’ Party — with PL 6066/25 by Raimundo Santos. Carneiro framed the package as a tightening of the architecture 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.
Penalties may be increased further where corporate structures, recidivism or identity-concealment mechanisms are at play.
Meanwhile operators licensed by the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance will be required to implement geolocation tools capable of blocking access from outside Brazilian territory or via virtual private networks, and internet service providers will have to maintain a permanent channel with the regulator for the execution of blocking orders.
Service providers to the licensed sector will have to demonstrate technical capacity for each service line in a five-year renewable accreditation that carries fees of up to R$20,000 per service type. The bill also unifies the supervisory architecture, mandating cooperation among the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the National Telecommunications Agency and the Council for Financial Activities Control, and requiring quarterly reports to a unified database of irregular operators.
The most notable technical detail is the role assigned to the telecommunications regulator (ANATEL). The bill formalises that agency’s responsibility for coordinating DNS, IP and Server Name Indication blocking, the technical methods used to suppress not only primary illegal domains but the mirror sites that proliferate within hours of an enforcement action.
Penalties for non-compliance by telecommunications operators are written into the same text. PL 4044/2025 now passes to the Constitution and Justice Committee, then to the floor of the Chamber, and finally to the Senate.
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Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies took its most decisive step yet against the country’s vast unlicensed online betting market on 1 June, 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, and her text unifies…
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