
The Union's Attorney General is preparing a document to present to Brazil's Supreme Court in support of government measures against online betting, citing preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Finance of economic losses of between 120 and 141 billion reais in 2025 and a 140% increase in accesses for pathological gambling from 2018 to 2025.
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The Union's Attorney General is preparing a legal document to present to Brazil's Supreme Court to support the Brazilian government's provisional measures banning online betting, in response to appeals from industry associations.
The Attorney General of the Union (Agu) prepares a document to be presented to the Supreme Court of Brazil (Stf) in support of the government's new measures against online betting. The Agu today asked judge Luiz Fux for 72 hours to respond to the appeals presented by industry associations against the provisional measure that bans betting in Brazil, the so-called 'bets', a request confirmed by several Brazilian sources.
As reported by the R7 portal, among the data that the Agu intends to use is a preliminary estimate from the Ministry of Finance according to which betting would have reduced Brazilian economic activity between 120 and 141 billion reais (20-23.5 billion euros) in 2025. Another estimate calculates the net losses of families in the same year at 62.5 billion reais (10.4 billion euros).
The Agu also intends to present data on the effects of betting on household indebtedness and on the Single Health System (SUS), including an increase of approximately 140% in accesses related to pathological gambling between 2018 and 2025.
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