President, vice-president and rapporteur defined.
According to the president of the CPI, Dr. Hiran (PP-RR)around 100 requests were presented by senators, right at the beginning of the work.
The rapporteur will be with the author of the request for the creation of the CPI, the senator Soraya Thronicke (Vamos-MS). The vice-presidency will be held by the senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE).
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When opening the work, Dr. Hiran criticized the difficulty in identifying the origin and destination of the resources used in this type of bet. He pointed out what he considers to be a major contradiction involving these online games: “We do not approve physical casinos, which are more traceable, and we make the mistake of placing casinos inside people’s homes,” he said.
“As a result, we are experiencing an epidemic of ludopathy, which are diseases related to games [on-line de apostas]. We need to mitigate the suffering of these people”, added the senator.
In October, when expressing support for the creation of the CPI, Hiran said that not even the Central Bank (BC) is able to control bet transactions and that they would be based in tax havens and carry out their transactions with cryptocurrencies, making their traceability even more difficult.
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Executive Branch and PGR
The topic has also drawn the attention of the Executive Branch, as it considers the legislation that allowed “the indiscriminate exploitation and dissemination” of these virtual betting systems based on sporting events to be unconstitutional.
When participating in the first session of the CPI das Bets, rapporteur Soraya Thronicke said she believes that the work will be facilitated thanks to the support already given by members of the Executive. According to her, this confirms the importance of the investigations that are beginning.
“What is rare to see is the Executive Branch agreeing to a CPI. And the Executive Branch agrees with this CPI, its importance and its need”, stated the senator. She adds that she was contacted by members of federal government departments and ministries out of concern about the effects of these laws.
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Federal Police
Thronicke added that the director general of the Federal Police (PF), Andrei Rodrigues, has already guaranteed the availability of teams to assist in investigations that should also focus on the possible association of gambling with criminal organizations and the practice of crimes such as money laundering. money.
“There is, therefore, no contradiction or collision of interests, even though there is already an investigation and confidential processes underway. Not here. Even though some issues will be processed in secret from the courts, the CPI has a very important pedagogical role, due to public health and damage [causados à população]”, he said. She stated that there are difficulties even in locating the people responsible for the betting companies.
The senator said she hopes that the CPI’s work will help raise awareness among people about the risks of these gambling games. In this sense, he criticized the use of digital influencers in the promotion and dissemination of these activities.
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The work plan presented by the rapporteur was approved, after being made available online to senators, in order to speed up the activities planned for the commission.
The Bets CPI is the second to investigate this type of company in the Senate. The first is the CPI for Manipulation of Games and Sports Betting, installed in April with the aim of investigating acts related to allegations and suspicions of manipulation of results in Brazilian football.
