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A government resolution published on 31 August instructs the justice minister to report by 30 September on whether the SZTFH can be wound up and its powers moved into government-run bodies. The regulator says it answers to Parliament, not to ministers.
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 provision that would have routed 30% of fixed-odds betting revenue to public security is out of the report filed in the Senate's justice committee. It has not been voted on yet, and the sports bodies that lobbied against it stand to keep about R$500 million a year.
The Ringer founder said on his own podcast that he gave his sportsbook login to his daughter's boyfriend. Massachusetts requires operators to log every IP address an account is accessed from, and it still took a podcast.
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.
The Gambling Commission has pulled the operating licences of two British bookmakers that share a director, weeks after their managing director resigned from both on the same day. Customers can still withdraw.
The City of Brussels gave its 15-year casino concession to Napoleon Games by 91.02 points to 87.74. The administrative court has now suspended that decision, and one of its grounds is a European filing the city never made.
Bucharest handed licensing power to local councils, and they have used it. An entire county has voted to phase out gaming halls, Timisoara has banned them outright, and one operator has said publicly that nobody loses their job.
Nederlandse Loterij is not waiting for the regulator. It is suing an unlicensed operator directly, and the complaint singles out TikTok advertising aimed at Dutch players.
Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.
Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.