The national president of, Senator (PI), embarked on Thursday (22) to Europe in a private jet of Piaui businessman, known as Fernandin Oig, owner of online betting companies, which provides games such as Fortune Tiger-popularly known as “Tygar Game”.
A Sheet He confirmed with at least three people the senator’s trip on the businessman’s plane, who also took his wife, the influencer Pamela Drudi. The flight departed from São Paulo Catarina Executive Airport, in São Roque (60 km from Sao Paulo), after Ciro Nogueira went as a helicopter at the Grand Mercure Ibirapuera Hotel, in São Paulo.
The information and confirmed by Sheet.
The senator was sought by Sheetbut preferred not to comment. Fernando Oliveira was also questioned by the report, but did not answer.
The entrepreneur is the target of, installed at the end of 2024 to investigate irregularities in bookmakers and possible results manipulation schemes at sporting events.
The commission has already held 15 sessions, and, according to Senate records, Ciro has spoken in two of them – he is a alternate member of the CPI. The first, when your business friend was heard and then the next.
In the first, the senator came out in defense of Fernando, saying that he knew him “for a long time” and that he was a “great businessman” of his state.
On the other hand, the Senator (Somos), CPI’s rapporteur, spoke about the difficulties in intimating him to testify. “We have trouble finding it,” he said in a recent session. Cyrus replied that he would commit to helping to locate him if he was formally summoned: “I commit here with the CPI, if we decide to bring him back and find him. He is a person who resides in my state.”
Ciro and Fernando met in São Paulo hours before the trip. The senator’s agenda in the state capital included the act of affiliation to the PP of the Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, Guilherme Derrite, which was attended by Governor Tarcísio de Freitas (). The event took place at nightclub in Vila Olímpia and brought together leaders from different parties, such as Valdemar Costa Neto (), Gilberto Kassab (PSD) and Antonio Rueda (União Brasil).
Ciro Nogueira spoke for a few minutes, praised Derrite and celebrated the growth of PP in São Paulo.
After the ceremony, he quickly left the stage and avoided talking to the press. Around 8:25 pm, he got in a car accompanied by advisors.
The senator took ten minutes to the hotel, where he boarded the helicopter, and at 9:20 pm was already at São Paulo Catarina airport, in the city of São Roque, used by the executive.
Ciro used his phone until 10:30 pm, when the businessman’s plane took off to Nice, France. Then he only moved his cell phone 8:54, a minute after the plane landed at the French Riviera. The entrepreneur and influencer posted on social networks also minutes before the flight and then published around 9:35 am. From Nice, they went to Monaco, where the Formula 1 GP was played.
Since 2016, Ciro defends the legalization of gambling in the country. It has reported projects on the theme and dialogue with sectors interested in market regulation.
In his speeches, he often argues that legalization would bring additional revenues to the state and strengthen supervision. The theme, however, divides Congress and faces resistance in part of the evangelical bench and sectors of the judiciary.
Viralized it recently with the media testimony of the, but is the subject of disinterest in the installation.
Sports bets were first released in Brazil at the end of the government of (), in 2018 ,.
The law released the Bets and provided for sector regulation until 2022. The government of (PL), however, never advanced with this agenda.
Thus, the bets exploded in Brazil in a gray zone of the legislation: without any inspection, nor taxation or requirements for operation.
The lack of regulation also allowed these sites to offer virtual casinos, such as “tiger” and similar.
At the beginning of the government (), in 2023, the Ministry of Finance sent a bill to Congress to finally regulate the market. In the process, the text came to predict the legalization of “online games”, a category that encompasses virtual casinos and games like the Tigrinho.
Only companies registered by the Federal Government can work in Brazil since the beginning of 2025. Fernando Oliveira Lima’s Oig Gaming is authorized to operate with three betting houses: 7Games, Concrete and R7.
The businessman is also the owner of the plane who took the Supreme Court Minister Kassio Nunes Marques for the birthday party of singer Gustavo Lima in 2024. At the time, the magistrate said he was in Rome for academic commitments and passed in Greece to greet the singer.
