Brazil’s Federal Government is preparing a system to prevent active and federated athletes from accessing licensed online betting platforms.
The information comes according to Giovanni Rocco, Secretary of Sports Betting and Economic Development at the Ministry of Sports.
Rocco said the Government plans to create a database containing the CPF (Brazilian individual taxpayer identifier) numbers of athletes who must be blocked by betting operators.
“We are developing a system that will block all active athletes, all federated athletes, regardless of their sport,” Rocco said.
“We will create a database structure to provide their CPFs to betting companies so they can block them,” he added.
The measure is intended to strengthen enforcement of Brazil’s Law No. 14,790/2023, which prohibits athletes from betting and also applies to referees, coaching staff, sports executives and other professionals involved in sporting competitions.
Rocco said there is currently a “deficit of information” among athletes, with some unaware that they are prohibited from betting on licensed platforms.
The planned system would create a more direct link between the legal restriction and the day-to-day operation of betting platforms, allowing operators to identify prohibited users before they can place bets.
According to Rocco, the proposal for a Latin American version is being discussed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sports federations, with the Government also engaging with representatives of Conmebol, the governing body for football in South America.
In the US, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, have pleaded not guilty to charges of ‘pitch-rigging’ in a case that began in 2025.
Still, the first prison sentence issued in a sports betting conspiracy case involving NBA player prop wagers was given to Timothy McCormack.
Recently, Brazil’s Ministry of Sport, in partnership with the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), launched a free course on preventing and addressing sports results manipulation and is open to the public through the Ministry of Sport’s official website.
More than 5 million Brazilians are now blocked from betting platforms, including welfare recipients, self-excluded users and participants in debt-renegotiation programs
