The 7th Criminal Court of Brasilia accepted, this Friday (25/7), the complaint filed by the Federal District and Territories (MPDFT) and made the striker of Flamengo, Bruno Henrique, defendant on suspicion of involvement in result manipulation scheme. The player is accused of intentionally receiving a yellow card during a match of the 2023 Brazilian Championship with the objective of benefiting gamblers.
With this, the question is: When will Bruno Henrique’s trial be? What pity can he get? THE Sporting News show.
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Judgment of Bruno Henrique
Flamengo’s attacker trial has no date set. Both Bruno Henrique, and his brother, Wander Pinto Júnior, They have ten days to present the defense.
From the decision, Bruno Henrique now responds criminally for three crimes: manipulation of sports result, consummated estelionate in co -authorship and two estelionate attempts, also in co -authorship. If convicted, the penalty can reach up to 17 years in prison. The complaint was initially revealed by the Metrópoles Portal.
The court upheld only against Bruno Henrique and his brother, Wander Nunes Pinto Júnior, discarding the complaint against the other investigated in the case.
According to MPDFT’s Special Action Group (Gaeco), it was the brother who would have encouraged the player to force the yellow card in the match between Flamengo and Santos. Also according to prosecutors, Bruno Henrique would have acted consciously, following Wander’s request.
Investigators point out that, after being informed by the player about the intention of bringing the card, Wander would have passed on to relatives. The Federal Police (PF) identified that Bruno Henrique’s last telephone contact before the game was precisely with his brother. A friend of Wander would then have disseminated the information to a group of gamblers, who made specific bets on the warning – who actually materialized on the field.
🚨Agora: Bruno Henrique, Flamengo player, becomes a defendant for estelionato and result manipulation, and can be arrested.
If convicted, the striker can take 17 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/fdg7b67Uxv
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Case Bruno Henrique: How was Card
The investigation took place in November last year. He was suspicious of having purposely taken a card in the game against Santos, for the 2023 Brazilian Championship, on November 1, 2023, to benefit gamblers who would be close to him.
He received a yellow and then red card in a matter of seconds, 50 minutes into the second half. The yellow happened after a foul in Soteldo. The expulsion was due to a strong complaint with referee Rafael Rodrigo Klein. Rafael explained the whole episode in the Precedent:
“I inform you that I knew, as a result of the direct red card, Mr. Bruno Henrique Pinto, for offending me with the following words:” You are a shit, “with his finger laughing toward my face, after the foul marking and also after being warned with yellow card. After being sent off, the athlete came toward me, being contained by his companions.
Flamengo lost the game 2-1.
Case Bruno Henrique: How were the bets
According to the Federal Police, there were two gamblers. One of them, formed by direct relatives of Bruno Henrique, have three people: his brother, sister -in -law (his brother’s wife) and a player’s cousin. The other consists of six people, most of them with some kind of soccer connection-former amateur team or football players 7. Both groups have no relationship, they are two different nuclei. In common, only the fact that everyone lives in Belo Horizonte or in the metropolitan region of the capital of Minas Gerais.
Everyone made the same kind of bet: that Bruno Henrique would take a card. The PF was able to detect 13 different bets, made in three bookmakers, by nine different gamblers: three from the core of relatives and six from the “core football”. The investigation does not rule out that other bets have been made in other companies.
Among the identified bets of bets for Bruno Henrique to take card in the game against Santos, are as follows:
- R $ 3,050.00 to earn R $ 9,150.00 (profit of R $ 6,100.00)
- R $ 2,300.00 to earn R $ 7,000.00 (profit of R $ 4,700.00)
- R $ 1,500.00 to earn R $ 4,550.00 (profit of R $ 3,050.00)
This does not mean that these are the total of the values involved in the case. At least one of the betting houses, Betano, reported having taken the air the possibility of betting on a card by Bruno Henrique when he noticed unusual movements.
On July 29, 2024, the CBF received an Alert from the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA), referred by Conmebol, which warned that the movement of bets for the Bruno Henrique card was suspected.
Ibia highlighted the issue of accounts were created the day before or on the day of the game between Flamengo and Santos, as well as the fact that several bets were at the same values, the maximum value allowed by each betting house and concentrated in a short period of time.
The CBF then forwarded the alert to the PF, the Federal District Public Prosecution Service (because the game was in Brasilia) and the STJD. The PF took over the investigation and sought the Ministry of Finance’s Prizes and Betting Secretariat (SPA), responsible for regulating BETs in Brazil. The SPA, at the request of the PF, identified representatives of betting houses in Brazil.
The PF then asked the betting homes for the identities of the gamblers on which the suspicions of the IBIA report were suspected. In possession of this information, the PF formulated the courts for search and seizure.
