Brazil
The re introduction of the law was initially put forward in March by Representative Nelson Marquezelli, who said he wanted to discuss “all of Brazil’s games” to regulate them and get them out of the control of the “underworld.” A long-time advocate of legalising gambling the lawmaker pointed out that Brazil was losing out on millions of dollars of tax and also added that he wanted to end the monopoly of CAIXA (Brazil’s state owned bank) on gaming, “The first world countries all have gaming. If Brazil wants to be a first world country, it needs to be equipped for this,” he said.
In addition to legalising the animal game, the special committee will have to consider other projects that have now been joined to the original text. Consequently although the debate revolves around primarily the legalisation of the animal game the debate goes much further. A total of eight proposals are now attached to the project which would liberalise the market and relate to casinos, bingo halls, sports betting and online gaming.
One of the amendments was presented on May 8 by Congresswoman Renata Abreu. The new text would grant the federal government with the right to allow bingos and other types of gambling. Mrs Renata Abreu argued that “The animal game is a social fact
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The re introduction of the law was put forward by Nelson Marquezelli: “The first world countries all have gaming. If Brazil wants to be a first world
country, it needs to be equipped for this,” he said.
in Brazil. Through the internet, you can bet and transfer funds online. . . Therefore, it is time for the National Congress to overcome hypocrisy, discuss the matter and regulate gaming in the most appropriate way to meet their entertainment and leisure purposes, and which could contribute resources to finance social welfare programmes,” she said.
Another proposal put forward by Darci Pompeo de Mattos, which also comes as an addendum to the Renato Vianna bill, would establish the creation of a municipal lottery. The lottery would be run by the municipalities themselves or by means of a concession to private companies. Fifty per cent of
revenues for the new game would be used for heath and for education.
LOTTERIES In Brazil the largest state owned bank runs lotteries
while a number of state lotteries are still also permitted. The Federal Lottery was set up in Brazil as a monopoly in 1961. Caixa Econômica Federal, known locally as CAIXA, is the biggest public bank in Latin America. In the first quarter of 2015, CAIXA’s customer base reached 80.2 million of account holders and savers, an increase of 8.7 per cent in 12 months and 2.3 per cent in relation to the latest quarter of 2014.
In addition to Caixa, states are also permitted to operate their own state lotteries and they outsource running of the operators to outside companies. Products run by the state lottery of Minas Gerais, for example, are run by Intralot. Only 15 states are authorized to run lotteries but out of these states, only Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Mato Grosso operate them. The largest are the lotteries of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais.
The CAIXA run federal lotteries are among the 12 largest in the world. In 2014, sales totalled US$5bn.
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