The Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas (SPA) is the body within Brazil's Ministry of Finance responsible for fixed odds betting, commercial promotions, philanthropic prize draws, lotteries and the advance collection of popular savings. Under Decree 11.907 of 30 January 2024, its role is to authorise, grant, regulate, set standards for, monitor, supervise, inspect and sanction companies in these sectors. It is organised into undersecretariats for authorisation, for monitoring and inspection, and for sanctions, and it publishes the list of authorised companies, the applicable legislation and its administrative sanction proceedings. Its work includes a centralised self exclusion platform covering authorised betting sites and rules on betting advertising. The SPA states that Provisional Measure 1.394 of 25 September 2026 prohibited the operation, offer and advertising of fixed odds betting across Brazil.
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The ANJL wants the platforms to run a permanent programme to find, remove, de-index and block the influencers who funnel Brazilians to unlicensed betting sites, and to stop the accounts coming back under new names. It puts the illegal market at 38% to 44%.
A childhood and youth court in Campina Grande has told the Finance Ministry and the telecoms regulator to remove Pixbet's sites and apps, fined it R$4.7 million and appointed an expert to test whether its age checks work at all.
BLIK now checks every transaction against the Finance Ministry's register of illegal gambling domains and declines the matches. Brazil is doing the same job by loading obligations onto banks and fintechs instead. Both are admissions that domain blocking stopped working.
Three associations issued statements within hours of each other. All three make the same point: the regulator was missing too, and the figures presented to the president went untested.
The Brazilian president spent four hours hearing evidence against the industry his own government licensed two years ago. The Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas, which regulates it, does not appear on the attendance list.
The penalty is modest by the standards of Brazilian enforcement. The reason it had to be served through the official gazette is not: the regulator went to the address Pixbet has on file and the company was not there.
Brazil's Ministry of Finance has published new advertising rules that require every betting ad to carry a financial-loss warning and outlaw urgency and easy-money messaging, tightening the screws on a sector that spent R$1.44 billion, approximately $260 million, promoting itself last year.